Open AccessSupervised, Multimodal Exercise: The Chemotherapy Supportive Therapy That Almost Does It All
Author(s) -
Kirkham Amy A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the oncologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.176
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1549-490X
pISSN - 1083-7159
DOI - 10.1634/theoncologist.2019-0628
Subject(s) - medicine , context (archaeology) , chemotherapy , physical therapy , psychological intervention , randomized controlled trial , intensive care medicine , exercise therapy , clinical trial , oncology , nursing , paleontology , biology
This commentary describes and places the results into context for the recent OptiTrain trial, a three‐arm randomized trial of two different exercise interventions versus usual care on rates of chemotherapy completion, hospitalization, and hematological toxicity.