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Trial reportBMJ supportive & palliative care2022

Exercise intervention and sexual function in advanced prostate cancer: a randomised controlled trial.

Daniel A Galvão, Dennis R Taaffe, Suzanne K Chambers, Ciaran M Fairman, Nigel Spry, David Joseph, Robert U Newton

Open access · hybridAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in BMJ supportive & palliative care, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. An exploratory analysis of 24-h movement behaviors in individuals with cancer completing a 12-week resistance exercise intervention.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel A GalvãoExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia d.galvao@ecu.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8209-2281
Dennis R TaaffeExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
Suzanne K ChambersExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
Ciaran M FairmanExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-9669
Nigel SpryExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
David JosephExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
Robert U NewtonExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia.
Edith Cowan University · AUUniversity of Technology Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTreatments for prostate cancer such as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), surgery and radiation therapy can adversely affect sexual, urinary and bowel function. Preliminary research has demonstrated the efficacy of exercise to preserve sexual function in men with localised prostate cancer receiving ADT, though this has yet to be investigated in a metastatic setting. We examined the effects of a 12-week exercise programme comprising resistance, aerobic and flexibility training on sexual health and function in men with advanced prostate cancer.

methodsPatients with prostate cancer (70.0±8.4 year; body mass index 28.7±4.0 kg/m

resultsPatients attended 89% of planned sessions and there were no adverse events. After adjusting for baseline values, there was no significant difference between groups for any measure of sexual function and activity (p>0.05). Additionally, there was no significant difference between groups for urinary and bowel function assessed by the EORTC-PR25 (p>0.05).

conclusionsA short-term programme of supervised exercise does not appear to enhance indices of sexual health and function in men with advanced prostate cancer. Limitations of the intervention included the conservative modular exercise programme, which deliberately avoided loading bone metastatic sites. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ACTRN12611001158954.

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Androgen AntagonistsProstatic NeoplasmsExerciseExercise TherapyHumansMaleQuality of LifeAndrogen Antagonistsboneprostatesurvivorshipsymptoms and symptom management

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PMID33328218
PMCPMC8862060
OpenAlexW3113116246

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