title: The Six-Minute Walk Test as a Measure of Health in Breast Cancer Patients.
abstract: This study examined the relationship between the 6-min walk test (6MWT) and fitness, psychological and physiologic states, quality of life, cancer-related symptoms, and body composition of 87 women with breast cancer. The assessment included the 6MWT and evaluations of Cancer Quality of Life (EORTC C-30 and EORTC BR-23), cognitive performance (Trail Making Test), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, body composition, health-related fitness (abdominal test, multiple sit-to-stand test, trunk dynamometry), and pain (Brief Pain Inventory). We observed the following correlations: moderate between 6MWT and pain interference; modest for cognitive and social functioning and the multiple sit-to-stand test; fair for several items on the Cancer Quality of Life, for anxiety, lean body mass, trunk dynamometry and pain intensity; and weak for role functioning, loss of appetite, cognitive performance and depression. Thus, the 6MWT could be used as a measure of the major components of global health in women with breast cancer.
authors.forename: Noelia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Galiano-Castillo
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arroyo-Morales
authors.forename: Angélica
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ariza-Garcia
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Salado
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernández-Lao
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cantarero-Villanueva
authors.forename: Lydia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martín-Martín
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001066:Appetite / Q000502:physiology; D001823:Body Composition; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010809:Physical Fitness / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D000070857:Walk Test
keywords: breast cancer; cardiopulmonary; functional capacity; quality of life