Therapeutic Properties of Aerobic Training After a Cancer Diagnosis: More Than a One-Trick Pony?
Menée à l'aide de rats Copenhague, cette étude met en évidence les effets d'une activité physique sur le flux sanguin tumoral et l'hypoxie du micro-environnement tumoral d'un cancer de la prostate
Until recently there was a prevailing dogma that cancer patients may be unable to safely participate in, benefit from, or tolerate structured exercise training/rehabilitation. Nevertheless, two factors pointed to the potential benefit of exercise in cancer patients: 1) the robust efficacy of exercise to favorably impact multiple physiological and psychosocial outcomes in noncancer clinical populations with similar symptomatology and limitations to exercise and 2) the emergence and importance of cancer survivorship. These factors provided the ideal platform and rationale to launch initial studies testing the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of exercise in patients with cancer. The past decade has witnessed a relative explosion in research, as well as clinical interest, in the application of exercise, as well as more general physical activity, in the context of cancer control efforts...