Exercise is medicine in oncology: Engaging clinicians to help patients move through cancer

Multiple organizations around the world have issued evidence-based exercise guidance for patients with cancer and cancer survivors. Recently, the American College of Sports Medicine has updated its exercise guidance for cancer prevention as well as for the prevention and treatment of a variety of cancer health-related outcomes (eg, fatigue, anxiety, depression, function, and quality of life). Despite these guidelines, the majority of people living with and beyond cancer are not regularly physically active. Among the reasons for this is a lack of clarity on the part of those who work in oncology clinical settings of their role in assessing, advising, and referring patients to exercise. The authors propose using…

• AC
  American Cancer Society
• AP
  American Physical Therapy Association
• AC
  American College of Sports Medicine
• AA
  American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• MC
  Macmillan Cancer Support
• NC
  National Comprehensive Cancer Network
• KN
  Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie
• NI
  National Institutes of Health
• NC
  National Cancer Institute