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Home-based exercise interventions incorporating cardiac rehabilitation principles for people with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Home Workouts: A Lifeline for Cancer Patients
This systematic review and meta-analysis highlights the effectiveness of home-based exCR, showing improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness and health-related quality of life for cancer patients. It also emphasizes the feasibility of these programs, which could serve as a crucial complement to traditional rehab.
What they found: The meta-analysis included nine RCTs with 632 participants, revealing that home-based exCR significantly improves cardiorespiratory fitness (SMD 0.42) and health-related quality of life (SMD 0.63). Adherence to the programs was high, exceeding 75%, with a dropout rate of just 15.2%. While adverse event reporting was inconsistent, no major safety issues were identified, suggesting that home-based exCR is a feasible and beneficial option for cancer patients.
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From the abstract
People with cancer are at increased cardiovascular risk due to treatment-related cardiotoxicity and shared risk factors. Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (exCR) may mitigate these risks, but access to center-based programs is limited.
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