Journal article
Longitudinal assessment of post-surgical physical activity in endometrial and ovarian cancer patients
PloS one, Vol.14(10), pp.e0223791-e0223791
10/16/2019
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223791
PMCID: PMC6795433
PMID: 31618279
Abstract
Objective
Physical activity plays a key role in cancer survivorship. The purpose of this investigation was to (a) describe the post-surgical physical activity trajectories of endometrial (n = 65) and ovarian (n = 31) cancer patients and (b) identify clinical and demographic predictors of physical activity over time.
Methods
96 participants wore an Actiwatch accelerometer for three days at each of three time points (one week, one month and four months) after surgical intervention for their endometrial or ovarian cancer diagnosis. Analyses were conducted using linear mixed effects regression modeling in SAS 9.4.
Results
For both tumor types, although physical activity levels increased with time after surgery, even at four months patients were performing only a small fraction of the 150 minutes of recommended weekly moderate to vigorous physical activity. At 1 week, subjects were completing on average 14 minutes/week (SD = 4) of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, compared to 14 minutes/week (SD = 2) of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at four months post-surgery (p < .05). Better self-rated health was associated with higher physical activity (p = 0.02) in endometrial cancer survivors only. BMI, age, surgery type and use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy were not associated with activity over time.
Conclusions
Our findings suggest that physical activity levels are different for those with better self-rated health, but those individuals are still insufficiently active. This study adds new information describing the trajectories and variables that influence physical activity in gynecologic cancer survivors after surgery and highlights the need for health promotion interventions in this population.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Longitudinal assessment of post-surgical physical activity in endometrial and ovarian cancer patients
- Creators
- Jessica Gorzelitz - University of Wisconsin–MadisonErin S. Costanzo - University of Wisconsin–MadisonRyan J. Spencer - University of Wisconsin–MadisonMeredith Rumble - University of Wisconsin–MadisonStephen L. Rose - University of Wisconsin–MadisonLisa Cadmus-Bertram - University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- PloS one, Vol.14(10), pp.e0223791-e0223791
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0223791
- PMID
- 31618279
- PMCID
- PMC6795433
- NLM abbreviation
- PLoS One
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- eISSN
- 1932-6203
- Publisher
- Public Library Science
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- P30CA014520 / NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) P30 CA014520 / UW Carbone Cancer Center
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/16/2019
- Academic Unit
- Health, Sport, and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984295024702771
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