Stress and cancer: mechanisms, significance and future directions

A Eckerling, I Ricon-Becker, L Sorski… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The notion that stress and cancer are interlinked has dominated lay discourse for decades.
More recent animal studies indicate that stress can substantially facilitate cancer …

Stress management interventions to facilitate psychological and physiological adaptation and optimal health outcomes in cancer patients and survivors

MH Antoni, PI Moreno, FJ Penedo - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Cancer diagnosis and treatment constitute profoundly stressful experiences involving
unique and common challenges that generate uncertainty, fear, and emotional distress …

Exercise as medicine–evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases

BK Pedersen, B Saltin - … journal of medicine & science in sports, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review provides the reader with the up‐to‐date evidence‐based basis for prescribing
exercise as medicine in the treatment of 26 different diseases: psychiatric diseases …

The short-term stress response–Mother nature's mechanism for enhancing protection and performance under conditions of threat, challenge, and opportunity

FS Dhabhar - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2018 - Elsevier
Our group has proposed that in contrast to chronic stress that can have harmful effects, the
short-term (fight-or-flight) stress response (lasting for minutes to hours) is nature's …

The impact of psychosocial stress and stress management on immune responses in patients with cancer

MH Antoni, FS Dhabhar - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The range of psychosocial stress factors/processes (eg, chronic stress, distress states,
co**, social adversity) were reviewed as they relate to immune variables in cancer along …

Yoga for improving health‐related quality of life, mental health and cancer‐related symptoms in women diagnosed with breast cancer

H Cramer, R Lauche, P Klose, S Lange… - Cochrane Database …, 2017 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Breast cancer is the cancer most frequently diagnosed in women worldwide.
Even though survival rates are continually increasing, breast cancer is often associated with …

A systematic review of exercise systematic reviews in the cancer literature (2005-2017)

NL Stout, J Baima, AK Swisher, KM Winters-Stone… - PM&R, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Evidence supports the benefits of exercise for patients with cancer; however,
specific guidance for clinical decision making regarding exercise timing, frequency, duration …

Cancer-related fatigue, version 2.2015

AM Berger, K Mooney, A Alvarez-Perez… - Journal of the National …, 2015 - jnccn.org
Cancer-related fatigue is defined as a distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical,
emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment …

Efficacy of exercise therapy on cardiorespiratory fitness in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JM Scott, EC Zabor, E Schwitzer… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To evaluate the effects of exercise therapy on cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in
randomized controlled trials (RCTs) among patients with adult-onset cancer. Secondary …

Impact of exercise interventions on physical fitness in breast cancer patients and survivors: a systematic review

S Ficarra, E Thomas, A Bianco, A Gentile, P Thaller… - Breast Cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background This systematic review aims to identify the effects of exercise interventions in
patients with breast cancer (BCP) and survivors (BCS) on selected variables of physical …