Exercise for older cancer patients: Feasible and helpful?

Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 146-157

  Klepin, Heidi D ^a   Mohile, Supriya G ^b   Mihalko, Shannon ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925732139     PISSN: 00741132     EISSN: 16623800     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000343597     Document Type: Review

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