High‐intensity exercise to improve cardiorespiratory fitness in cancer patients and survivors: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Improving cardiorespiratory fitness (CRFit) in cancer patients is crucial to increase survivorship, promote health, and improve quality of life. High‐intensity training (HIT) has the potential to increase CRFit, perhaps better than other exercise modalities, but the extant evidence has yet to be ful...

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Published in:Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports 2021-02, Vol.31 (2), p.265-294
Main Authors: Lavín‐Pérez, Ana Myriam, Collado‐Mateo, Daniel, Mayo, Xián, Humphreys, Liam, Liguori, Gary, James Copeland, Robert, Del Villar Álvarez, Fernando, Jiménez, Alfonso
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Bias
Cancer
Cancer Survivors
Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Confidence Intervals
exercise oncology
Female
high‐intensity training
Humans
Male
Meta-analysis
Middle Aged
Neoplasms - rehabilitation
Physical Conditioning, Human - methods
Physical fitness
Quality of Life
Resistance Training
Systematic review
Time Factors
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Summary:Improving cardiorespiratory fitness (CRFit) in cancer patients is crucial to increase survivorship, promote health, and improve quality of life. High‐intensity training (HIT) has the potential to increase CRFit, perhaps better than other exercise modalities, but the extant evidence has yet to be fully explored. This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to evaluate the effects of HIT on CRFit in cancer patients and survivors and to identify the optimal characteristics of the interventions (eg, cancer type, intervention timing, exercise modality, intervention's duration, and the number of minutes of high‐intensity exercise in each session). The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed. A total of 31 articles (2515 participants) were included in the systematic review and 25 in the meta‐analyses. CRFit significantly improved with HIT in comparison with a control group (P 
ISSN:0905-7188
1600-0838
DOI:10.1111/sms.13861