Tracking Steps in Oncology: the Time is Now

Overview

Journal Cancer Manag Res

Publisher Dove Medical Press

Specialty Oncology

Date 2018 Aug 21

PMID 30122993

Citations 19

Authors

Juhi M Purswani

Nitin Ohri

Colin Champ

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Abstract

Purpose: Accurate evaluation of patients' health status is a key component of the workup, treatment, and follow-up of cancer patients. Assessments by clinicians (eg, performance status, toxicity grade) and patients (eg, quality of life) play a critical role in current practice but have significant limitations. Technological advances now provide an opportunity to track a new class of objective measures of patient activity, such as daily step counts. Here, we describe recent efforts to incorporate this technology into the field of oncology.

Design: We conducted a structured literature search using MEDLINE electronic database to identify published observational studies of tracking steps in cancer patients and trials of exercise programs for cancer survivors incorporating pedometers until February 2016.

Results: Data indicate that physical activity information may supplant existing scales for the assessment of cancer patients' functional capacity.

Conclusion: Objective activity monitoring is poised to revolutionize the way health care providers assess cancer patients at the time of diagnosis, during treatment, and in the survivorship setting.

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