Cited by 2,988Cancer survivorship and careChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of LifePhysical Activity and Health

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Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors: Consensus Statement from International Multidisciplinary Roundtable

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Abstract

Purpose: The number of cancer survivors worldwide is growing, with over 15.5 million cancer survivors in the United States alone—a figure expected to double in the coming decades. Cancer survivors face unique health challenges as a result of their cancer diagnosis and the impact of treatments on their physical and mental well-being. For example, cancer survivors often experience declines in physical functioning and quality of life while facing an increased risk of cancer recurrence and all-cause mortality compared with persons without cancer. The 2010 American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable was among the first reports to conclude that cancer survivors could safely engage in enough exercise training to improve physical fitness and restore physical functioning, enhance quality of life, and mitigate cancer-related fatigue. Methods: A second Roundtable was convened in 2018 to advance exercise recommendations beyond public health guidelines and toward prescriptive programs specific to cancer type, treatments, and/or outcomes. Results: Overall findings retained the conclusions that exercise training and testing were generally safe for cancer survivors and that every survivor should “avoid inactivity.” Enough evidence was available to conclude that specific doses of aerobic, combined aerobic plus resistance training, and/or resistance training could improve common cancer-related health outcomes, including anxiety, depressive symptoms, fatigue, physical functioning, and health-related quality of life. Implications for other outcomes, such as peripheral neuropathy and cognitive functioning, remain uncertain. Conclusions: The proposed recommendations should serve as a guide for the fitness and health care professional working with cancer survivors. More research is needed to fill remaining gaps in knowledge to better serve cancer survivors, as well as fitness and health care professionals, to improve clinical practice.

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    The 2010 general exercise recommendations may be unachievable for cancer survivors with physical limitations, and benefits may come from less exercise.

    “As it was acknowledged that the general exercise recommendations put forward in 2010 may be unachievable for cancer survivors with physical limitations and that benefits may come from less exercise, a particular goal of the 2018 Roundtable was to develop more granular exercise prescriptions for distinct cancer-related health outcomes to better guide fitness and other healthcare professionals who”
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    The exercise prescriptions are assumed to generalize across cancer types unless otherwise specified.

    “When interpreting and applying a prescription, the exercise professional should be mindful that the evidence is often disproportionately from trials in a single cancer type (i.e., breast), but the prescription is assumed to generalize across cancer types unless otherwise specified.”
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    Differences among cancer survivors by cancer type exist.

    “differences among cancer survivors by cancer type are known to exist (i.e., demographics, prognosis, treatments received and associated side effects)”
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    The treatment approach used varies by cancer type, stage, subtype, patient health, and other considerations.

    “The treatment approach used will differ by type of cancer, stage of disease, cancer subtype, patient health and many other considerations.”
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    Individuals diagnosed with cancer commonly have concerns that may limit prioritization of exercise in their lives.

    “individuals diagnosed with cancer commonly have many concerns, such as life expectancy, employment issues, and family matters, that may limit prioritization of exercise in their lives.”
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    Both cancer diagnosis and curative cancer treatments may affect the underlying safety of exercise training.

    “Both the diagnosis of cancer and curative cancer treatments may affect the underlying safety of exercise training.”
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    In the absence of unique safety concerns, the efficacy of exercise on various outcomes would be similar for survivors with early stage cancers other than breast and prostate cancer.

    “it could be reasonably assumed that in the absence of any unique safety concerns for survivors of other types of cancer that the efficacy of exercise on various outcomes would be similar for survivors with early stage cancers other than breast and prostate cancer.”
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Authors
CAMPBELL, K. L., WINTERS-STONE, K. M., WISKEMANN, J., MAY, A. M., SCHWARTZ, A. L., COURNEYA, K. S., ZUCKER, D. S., MATTHEWS, C. E., LIGIBEL, J. A., GERBER, L. H., MORRIS, G. S., PATEL, A. V., HUE, T. F., PERNA, F. M., & SCHMITZ, K. H.
Affiliations
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • School of Nursing and Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
  • Heidelberg University (DE)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • Northern Arizona University (US)
  • University of Alberta (CA)
  • Swedish Medical Center (US)
  • Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Inova Health System (US)
  • Wingate University (US)
  • American Cancer Society (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • National Cancer Institute (US)
  • Penn State Cancer Institute (US)
Venue
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Published
2019-11
Volume
51
Issue
11
Pages
2375-2390
ISSN
  • 0195-9131 (ISSN-L)
  • 1530-0315
OpenAlex
W2981263606
Cited by
2,988
References
122
Citations by year
2026: 488 · 2025: 490 · 2024: 532 · 2023: 438 · 2022: 426 · 2021: 378 · 2020: 219 · 2019: 9
FWCI
106.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (Z99 CA999999)
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA163474, R01CA222605)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
Keywords
cancer survivors, exercise recommendations, exercise prescription, cancer-related fatigue, aerobic exercise, resistance training, physical function, quality of life, anxiety, depressive symptoms, exercise safety, cancer recurrence risk, all-cause mortality
MeSH terms
Cancer Survivors, Anxiety, Depression, Exercise Test, Exercise Therapy, Fatigue, Humans, Lymphedema, Physical Fitness, Quality of Life, Exercise, Exercise Tolerance, Evidence-Based Medicine

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