Is exercise ignored in palliative cancer patients?
Articles > Article · 2014
Authors: Sibel EYİGÖR, S AKDENIZ
World Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, Scopus, 2014, vol 5, pp 554-554
Summary
Exercise and rehabilitation approaches in palliative care programs for cancer patients affect patients' symptoms, physical functioning, muscle strength, emotional wellbeing, psychological symptoms, functional capacities, quality of life, mortality and morbidity positively. Based on scientific data, palliative cancer patients should be recommended to participate in exercise programs. There is no standard approach to recipe an exercise regimen for a palliative cancer survivor. Studies for demonstrating the positive effects of exercising in palliative care patients are increasing in number day by day. At this point, increasing awareness about exercising in the entire team monitoring the patient and our efforts in this matter seems to be very important.