Effects of exercise training in cancer types with low survival rate: systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Improving patients’ cardiorespiratory fitness, fatigue and quality of life is an important therapeutic outcomes in cancer rehabilitation. Physical exercise has the potential to improve cardiorespiratory fitness, fatigue and to improve quality of life in cancer patients. However most studies were performed in patients with early stage breast or prostate cancer. Breast and prostate cancer is known as a cancer with high survival rate. Evidence on the effect of physical exercise on physical function, fatigue and quality of life in cancer types with low survival rate is lacking.