Clinical and sociodemographic determinants of older breast cancer survivors' reports of receiving advice about exercise.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Exercise offers various clinical benefits to older breast cancer survivors. However, studies report that healthcare providers may not regularly discuss exercise with their patients. We evaluated clinical and sociodemographic determinants of receiving advice about exercise from healthcare providers among older breast cancer survivors (aged ≥65 years).

Methods

We used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results cancer registries linked to the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS) from 2008 to 2015. We included female breast cancer survivors, aged ≥65 years, who completed the MHOS survey ≥2 years after a breast cancer diagnosis in a modified Poisson regression to identify clinical and sociodemographic determinants of reportedly receiving advice about exer

SUBMITTER: Wojcik KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11522097 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature