Prospective evaluation of a 12-week walking exercise program and its effect on fatigue in prostate cancer patients undergoing radical external beam radiotherapy

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 350-355

  Truong, Pauline T ^a,b   Gaul, Catherine A ^b,c   McDonald, Rachel E ^a   Petersen, Ross B ^a   Jones, Stuart O ^a   Alexander, Abraham S ^a,b   Lim, Jan T W ^a,b   Ludgate, Charles ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

exercise; fatigue; prostate cancer; quality of life; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE INTENSITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 79961165883     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e3181e841ec     Document Type: Article

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