The effects of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and an in-hospital exercise training programme on physical fitness and quality of life in locally advanced rectal cancer patients (The EMPOWER Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: The standard treatment pathway for locally advanced rectal cancer is neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by surgery. Neoadjuvant CRT has been shown to decrease physical fitness, and this decrease is associated with increased post-operative morbidity. Exercise training can stimul...

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Hauptverfasser: Loughney, Lisa, West, Malcolm A., Kemp, Graham J., Rossiter, Harry B., Burke, Shaunna M., Cox, Trevor, Barben, Christopher P., Mythen, Michael G., Calverley, Peter, Palmer, Daniel H., Grocott, Michael P. W., Jack, Sandy
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2016
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Study Protocol
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710998/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26762365
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-1149-4
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