title: Physical activity and childhood cancer.
abstract: This review provides a survey of studies investigating physical activity and exercise interventions in patients during tumor treatment and survivors of childhood cancer. PubMed and Medline databases were searched using relevant terms. References of selected papers were tracked. A total of 28 studies could be identified. Seventeen studies investigated physical activity, 11 studies determined the effect of activity enhancing interventions during and after therapy. Even though most studies showed limitations and results were not consistent, considerably reduced physical activity is highly probable in patients during and after therapy. Studies on interventions provided promising results and revealed challenges to be faced.
authors.affiliation: Movement Analysis Lab, Orthopedic Department, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany. winterco@uni-muenster.de
authors.forename: Corinna
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Winter
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boos
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rosenbaum
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000628:therapy*