Department of Physiotherapy, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India.
Department of Radiation oncology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher education, Mangalore, India.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2020 Jun 1;21(6):1813-1818. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.6.1813.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer amongst Indian women. Cancer treatments leads to various side effects out of which Cancer-Related fatigue (CRF) is one of the most under-addressed side-effects. It is experienced the most in patients receiving chemotherapy. Exercise has been proven to be a beneficial intervention to manage CRF but the benefits of pedometer-based exercise programs is under-studied in patients with breast cancer. Hence, we set out to investigate the effects of a pedometer-based exercise program for patients with breast receiving chemotherapy.
The current study was a non-randomized controlled trial with 22 patients each in exercise and control group. The exercise group received a pedometer-based walking program, whereas the control group received standard physical activity advice. Fatigue, quality of life, functional capacity and body composition were assessed at baseline, 3rd week and 7th week.
At the end of 7 weeks intervention, functional capacity, quality of life and skeletal mass were found to have improved with statistical significance, while the fatigue and changes in total fat did improve but were not statistically significant.
A 7-week pedometer-based exercise program improved functional capacity, quality of life and percentage of skeletal mass and also shows to have prevented deterioration in fatigue levels in patients with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy.
乳腺癌是印度女性中最常见的癌症。癌症治疗会导致各种副作用，其中癌症相关疲劳（CRF）是最未得到充分重视的副作用之一。它在接受化疗的患者中最为常见。运动已被证明是管理 CRF 的有益干预措施，但基于计步器的运动方案对乳腺癌患者的益处研究不足。因此，我们着手研究基于计步器的运动方案对接受化疗的乳腺癌患者的影响。
本研究为非随机对照试验，每组 22 例患者，分别为运动组和对照组。运动组接受基于计步器的步行方案，而对照组接受标准的身体活动建议。在基线、第 3 周和第 7 周评估疲劳、生活质量、功能能力和身体成分。
干预 7 周后，功能能力、生活质量和骨骼质量均有显著改善，而疲劳和总脂肪的变化虽有所改善，但无统计学意义。
基于计步器的 7 周运动方案可改善功能能力、生活质量和骨骼质量的百分比，并且显示可预防接受化疗的乳腺癌患者疲劳水平的恶化。
