Authors
Laurien M Buffart, Joeri Kalter, Maike G Sweegers, Kerry S Courneya, Robert U Newton, Neil K Aaronson, Paul B Jacobsen, Anne M May, Daniel A Galvão, Mai J Chinapaw, Karen Steindorf, Melinda L Irwin, Martijn M Stuiver, Sandi Hayes, Kathleen A Griffith, Alejandro Lucia, Ilse Mesters, Ellen Van Weert, Hans Knoop, Martine M Goedendorp, Nanette Mutrie, Amanda J Daley, Alex McConnachie, Martin Bohus, Lene Thorsen, Karl-Heinz Schulz, Camille E Short, Erica L James, Ron C Plotnikoff, Gill Arbane, Martina E Schmidt, Karin Potthoff, Marc Van Beurden, Hester S Oldenburg, Gabe S Sonke, Wim H Van Harten, Rachel Garrod, Kathryn H Schmitz, Kerri M Winters-Stone, Miranda J Velthuis, Dennis R Taaffe, Willem Van Mechelen, Marie-José Kersten, Frans Nollet, Jennifer Wenzel, Joachim Wiskemann, Irma M Verdonck-de Leeuw, Johannes Brug
Publication date
2017/1/1
Source
Cancer treatment reviews
Volume
52
Pages
91-104
Publisher
WB Saunders
Description
This individual patient data meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effects of exercise on quality of life (QoL) and physical function (PF) in patients with cancer, and to identify moderator effects of demographic (age, sex, marital status, education), clinical (body mass index, cancer type, presence of metastasis), intervention-related (intervention timing, delivery mode and duration, and type of control group), and exercise-related (exercise frequency, intensity, type, time) characteristics.
Relevant published and unpublished studies were identified in September 2012 via PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL, reference checking and personal communications. Principle investigators of all 69 eligible trials were requested to share IPD from their study. IPD from 34 randomised controlled trials (n = 4519 patients) that evaluated the effects of exercise compared to a usual care, wait-list or attention control group on QoL and …
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