title: Physical functions, health-related outcomes, nutritional status, and blood markers in community-dwelling cancer survivors aged 75 years and older.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A cancer survivor is defined as anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer, from the time of diagnosis through the rest of their life. The purpose of this study was to examine whether physical functions, health-related outcomes, nutritional status and blood markers in community-dwelling cancer survivors aged 75 years and older are different from those who do not have cancer
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred seventy-five participants were asked by physicians, nurses, and physical therapists, questions regarding cancer history in a face-to-face interview. Data were collected for demographic information, physical functions, such as handgrip strength, knee extension power, abdominal muscle strength, static standing balance, walking speed and the timed-up-and-go test, health-related outcomes, nutritional status, and blood markers. The measured parameters of survivor diagnosed with cancer were compared with those without a history of cancer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-seven older adults were previously diagnosed with cancer. Female cancer survivors had lower knee extension power (p<0.05), abdominal muscle strength (p<0.05), walking speed (p<0.05), timed-up-and-go test score (p<0.05), and time to spend on walking per day (p<0.05) than older women without a history of cancer. In men, none of the measured parameters were significantly different between cancer survivors and older men with no history of cancer.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present study shows that partial physical function of women cancer survivors aged 75 years and older differs from that in women with no history of cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of School of Health Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Ohnishi, Japan E-mail : ihirah@sapmed.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Hikaru
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ihira
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mizumoto
authors.forename: Keitarou
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Makino
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yoko
authors.forename: Shigeyuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saitoh
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohnishi
authors.forename: Taketo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Furuna
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood*; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D053580:Muscle Strength; D009369:Neoplasms; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010809:Physical Fitness; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers