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Effects of Exercise Intervention on Quality of Life in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors: A Meta-Analysis.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Grading the evidence on the effects of exercise interventions in children and adolescents during and beyond cancer treatment: an umbrella review of systematic reviews with meta-analyses.British journal of sports medicine · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of prehabilitation interventions on affective and functional outcomes for young to midlife adult cancer patients: A systematic review.Psycho-oncology · 2022Pooled it
- A Multimodal Lifestyle Psychosocial Survivorship Program in Young Cancer Survivors: The CARE for CAYA Program-A Randomized Clinical Trial Embedded in a Longitudinal Cohort Study.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- A randomized controlled pilot study assessing feasibility and safety of a wilderness program for childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors: the WAYA study.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Exercise for survivorship: outcomes associated with a community-based group exercise program for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Feasibility and acceptability of a parallel, two-arm randomized controlled trial to evaluate an online physical activity behavior counseling intervention for young adults diagnosed with cancer: a mixed-methods pilot study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Associations of adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations with health-related quality of life and fatigue in Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer survivors: results from the SURVAYA study.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Review
- Magnetic hyperthermia-based therapies for cancer targeting: current progress and future perspectives.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025Review
- Diet and physical activity intervention preferences for young adult cancer survivors.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
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- Changes in female cancer diagnostic billing rates over the COVID-19 period in the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2025Article
- Childhood cancer patients' experiences of a structured exercise program. A qualitative study using reflexive thematic analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Experiences, behaviours, and perspectives of young cancer survivors on physical activity.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial ofHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Exploration of the factors influencing the quality of life among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: the data from a cross-sectional study in Shandong.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Effects of Exercise-Induced Changes in Myokine Expression on the Tumor Microenvironment.Sports medicine international open · 2024Review
- Physical activity and physical fitness assessments in adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer: a scoping review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Healthy lifestyle interventions for childhood and adolescent cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Child health nursing research · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundCancer and its treatment significantly impact the quality of life (QOL) of adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients. This meta-analysis examined the effects of exercise interventions on the generic and cancer-specific QOL of AYA cancer patients and survivors.
methodsFour databases were searched from January 2010 to September 2019. RevMan 5.3 was used to synthesize the effects of exercise intervention on the QOL of AYA cancer patients and survivors.
resultsA total of 11 eligible studies have been included in this paper. Direct outcome comparisons found that pooled overall effects on generic QOL were in favor of exercise interventions, but only with marginal significance (Z= 1.96, P = 0.05). When performing the subscale analysis of the generic QOL, three trials assessed the effects of exercise interventions on the emotional domain of QOL, and the weighted mean difference (WMD) for the overall intervention effect was 3.47 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.42 to 6.51). Additionally, exercise interventions increased the minutes of physical activity per week undertaken by AYA cancer patients and survivors (Z= 2.88, P = 0.004).
conclusionExercise interventions had positive effects on generic QOL and increased the minutes of physical activity per week undertaken by AYA cancer patients and survivors. In addition, exercise intervention programs appear to be safe, as there were no studies that reported adverse events. Future research, with rigorous methodological standards and larger sample sizes, should be designed to confirm the positive effects of exercise interventions on the QOL of AYA cancer patients and survivors.
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