Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Publication Title
European Urology Open Science
ISSN
26661691
Volume
21
First Page
47
Last Page
50
Publisher
Elsevier
School
Exercise Medicine Research Institute / School of Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract
© 2020 The Author(s) In this brief correspondence, we evaluate the potential impact of pivoting from face-to-face supervised to unsupervised home-based exercise programmes to contextualise the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in prostate cancer patients. A meta-analysis was undertaken in fatigue, quality of life, and lean and fat mass outcomes in the four studies included. Our analysis indicates that unsupervised home-based exercise maintains patient-reported outcomes, except for fat mass. In summary, changing to unsupervised exercise is unlikely to provide further benefits on patient-reported and body composition outcomes, but may help maintain initial gains during physical distancing restrictions. Patient summary: We discuss the potential impacts of transitioning from face-to-face supervised to unsupervised home-based exercise programmes in prostate cancer patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Our analysis suggests that patients are likely to maintain patient-reported and body composition benefits from current nonsupervised programmes; however, evolution of exercise delivery to prostate cancer patients is required to continue health and fitness improvement in this group.
DOI
10.1016/j.euros.2020.09.002
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Comments
Lopez, P., Taaffe, D. R., Newton, R. U., Spry, N., Shannon, T., Frydenberg, M., ... Galvão, D. A. (2020). Can exercise adaptations be maintained in men with prostate cancer following supervised programmes? Implications to the COVID-19 landscape of urology and clinical exercise. European Urology Open Science, 21, 47-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euros.2020.09.002