Exercise prescription for symptoms and quality of life improvements in lung cancer patients: a systematic review.

Alberto Codima Willian das Neves Ana Paula de Souza Borges Gilberto de Castro Junior

Published in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2020)

Exercise can lead to improvements of symptoms and of quality of life in lung cancer survivors. Providing resistance training combined with high-intensity interval aerobic exercise after lung resection seems to be particularly effective. Further studies are warranted to investigate exercise for patients with poor performance status.

Keyphrases

resistance training
high intensity
body composition
end stage renal disease
physical activity
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
young adults
peritoneal dialysis
sleep quality
depressive symptoms