Can a modest exercise program really improve physical functioning and quality of life among recipients of hematopoietic SCT?

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-218

  Somerfield, M R ^a   Rizzo, J D ^b  

^a AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; EXERCISE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; INFECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LUNG FUNCTION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECIPIENT; WELLBEING;

EXERCISE THERAPY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 76749157171     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2009.164     Document Type: Editorial

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