Individualised physical activity programme in patients over 65 years with haematological malignancies (OCAPI): protocol for a single-arm feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Older adults with cancer suffer from the combined effects of ageing, cancer disease and treatment side effects. The main treatment for patients with haematological malignancies is chemotherapy, associated with significant toxicities. Chemotherapy can alter patients' physical function and quality of life which are often already diminished in older patients due to ageing and comorbidities. It therefore seems essential to develop and to evaluate interventions capable of preventing physical and psychosocial decline and its consequences. Promoting physical activity is a promising approach to improve physical function and quality of life in older adults with cancer, but there are limited data on the feasibility of such interventions among older patients with haematological m

SUBMITTER: Fournier B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8183222 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature