Meeting Exercise Recommendations Is Beneficial for Cancer Survivors
Menée à partir de données portant sur 11 480 patients ayant survécu à un cancer (durée médiane de suivi : 16 ans), cette étude analyse l'association entre la pratique d'exercices physiques après le diagnostic de la maladie et la mortalité toutes causes confondues et par cancer (4 665 décès dont 1 940 décès par cancer)
There is growing consensus that exercise is beneficial for people after a cancer diagnosis. The 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (PAGA)1 states that there are beneficial effects of exercise on cause-specific mortality for prostate, breast, and colorectal cancers and improved quality of life and fitness for all cancer survivors. The report by Lavery et al2 in the article that accompanies this editorial provides reassurance that PAGA is effective—it observed that exercise meeting the national guidelines is associated with substantial reductions in risk of all-cause mortality (overall and among survivors of many cancer types), overall cancer-specific mortality, and mortality from other causes. This research extends the findings of previous studies3 and reports on a novel statistically significant cancer-specific mortality benefit for head and neck cancer and renal cancer.