HLTH 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Oxidative Stress, Chemotherapy
11 Mar 2018
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Title: oxidative stress and fitness changes in cancer patients after exercise training. Publication journal and year: american college of sports medicine 2015. The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of exercise intervention on cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength, and oxidative stress in cancer survivors compared to a nonexercising cancer control group. There were 15 patients with cancer and 7 participants with no history of cancer that took part of this study. The study assessed parti(cid:272)ipant"s cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular strength. The cardiorespiratory fitness test took place after 6 weeks of completing radiation or chemotherapy, and 10 weeks after that. 7 cancer patients continued standard care, while 8 cancer patients completed 10 week supervised exercise intervention. The relationship between fitness and oxidative stress was measured. Additionally, oxidative stress was compared between cancer patients and non-cancer patients. Some other assessments that were conducted are: maximal treadmill testing, muscular strength assessment, exercise intervention, blood handling and analysis, and statistical analysis.
