Gait and Balance Impairments in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To systematically review and quantitatively synthesize gait and balance impairments in breast cancer survivors compared with age-matched controls or normative values for adults who never had breast cancer.

Data sources

PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health, and Web of Science was searched using terms associated with breast cancer, mobility, and adult until November 2018.

Study selection

Studies were included if they were randomized control trials, cross-sectional, prospective, pre-post, or case-control by design, included adult breast cancer survivors, reported gait and/or balance metrics as primary or secondary outcomes, were peer-reviewed publications, and were written in English. The search yielded 2117 results with 29

SUBMITTER: Hsieh KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7853379 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature