Cancer Survivors Could Get Survival Benefits from Postdiagnosis Physical Activity: A Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical activity presents significant protection against death from cancer in the general population, so the global recommendations on physical activity for health are recommended by the WHO. While the recommendation is a guideline for general population, whether all cancer patients could get benefits from physical activity and whether the cancer patients who did not meet the requirement of the recommendation could get benefits from the physical activity, compared with the cancer patients with no physical activity, are unclear. Accordingly, we conducted a meta-analysis to identify whether the physical activity, even if low level of physical activity, could reduce the mortality of various cancer patients.

Method

We conducted a systematic search of PubMed, Embase,

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6854247 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature