Interventions to promote exercise in cancer survivors who report better levels of adherence share some common behaviour change techniques .
These involve setting programme goals , prompting practise and self-monitoring and encouraging participants to attempt to generalise behaviours learned in supervised exercise environments to other , non-supervised context s. However , expecting most sedentary survivors to achieve current guideline recommendations of at least 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise is likely to be unrealistic .
BACKGROUND The beneficial effects of regular exercise for people living with or beyond cancer are becoming apparent .
However , how to promote exercise behaviour in sedentary cancer cohorts is not as well understood .
A large majority of people living with or recovering from cancer do not meet exercise recommendations .
Hence , review ing the evidence on how to promote and sustain exercise behaviour is important .
OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of interventions to promote exercise behaviour in sedentary people living with and beyond cancer and to address the following questions : Which interventions are most effective in improving aerobic fitness and skeletal muscle strength and endurance ?
What adverse effects are attributed to different exercise interventions ?
Which interventions are most effective in improving exercise behaviour amongst patients with different cancers ?
Which interventions are most likely to promote long-term ( 12 months or longer ) exercise behaviour ?
What frequency of contact with exercise professionals is associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
What theoretical basis is most often associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
What behaviour change techniques are most often associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
Recreational physical activity and risk of prostate cancer: A prospective population-based study in Norway (the HUNT study).
Physical activity has been studied in relation to prostate cancer risk , but the findings have been inconclusive . We prospect ively examined the association between self-reported recreational physical activity and overall risk of prostate cancer , risk of advanced disease and risk of prostate cancer death in a cohort of 29,110 Norwegian men . Incident prostate cancers were obtained from the Norwegian Cancer Registry , and prostate cancer deaths were obtained from the national Cause of Death Registry . During 17 years of follow-up , 957 incident cases were identified , 266 of them were advanced ( i.e. metastases at diagnosis ) and 354 of the incident cases died from prostate cancer . In multivariable analysis , frequency and duration of exercise  were inversely associated with the risk of advanced prostate cancer ( p for trend = 0.04 and 0.02 ) . We computed a summary score that combined frequency , duration and intensity of exercise  , and this score showed inverse associations with advanced prostate cancer risk and mortality ( p for trend = 0.02 and 0.07 ) . Compared to men who reported no activity , the relative risks ( 95 % confidence intervals ) among men in the highest category of physical exercise was 0.64 ( 0.43 - 0.95 ) for advanced prostate cancer and 0.67 ( 0.48 - 0.94 ) for prostate cancer death . We found no association between physical activity and overall risk of prostate cancer . We conclude that recreational physical exercise is associated with reduced risk of advanced prostate cancer and prostate cancer death
Interventions to promote exercise in cancer survivors who report better levels of adherence share some common behaviour change techniques .
These involve setting programme goals , prompting practise and self-monitoring and encouraging participants to attempt to generalise behaviours learned in supervised exercise environments to other , non-supervised context s. However , expecting most sedentary survivors to achieve current guideline recommendations of at least 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise is likely to be unrealistic .
BACKGROUND The beneficial effects of regular exercise for people living with or beyond cancer are becoming apparent .
However , how to promote exercise behaviour in sedentary cancer cohorts is not as well understood .
A large majority of people living with or recovering from cancer do not meet exercise recommendations .
Hence , review ing the evidence on how to promote and sustain exercise behaviour is important .
OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of interventions to promote exercise behaviour in sedentary people living with and beyond cancer and to address the following questions : Which interventions are most effective in improving aerobic fitness and skeletal muscle strength and endurance ?
What adverse effects are attributed to different exercise interventions ?
Which interventions are most effective in improving exercise behaviour amongst patients with different cancers ?
Which interventions are most likely to promote long-term ( 12 months or longer ) exercise behaviour ?
What frequency of contact with exercise professionals is associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
What theoretical basis is most often associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
What behaviour change techniques are most often associated with increased exercise behaviour ?