Abstract
Improving quality of life is a key issue for patients with prostate cancer (PCa). Lifestyle interventions could positively impact the quality of life of patients. However, there is no clear-cut understanding of the role of diet, exercise and risky behaviour reduction in improving the quality of life of men with PCa. The aim of this review was to systematically summarize randomized controlled trials on lifestyle in PCa patients with quality of life as main outcome. 17 trials were included. Most of them referred to exercise interventions (71%) and involved men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy (47%). Exercise studies yielded the greater amount of positive results on quality of life outcomes (67%), followed by dietary interventions (50%) and combined lifestyle interventions (33%). In particular, supervised exercise programs with resistance training sessions were the ones producing greater convincing evidence for benefits on quality of life. Further studies with high methodological quality providing adequate information to develop evidence-based, personalized lifestyle interventions that can effectively ameliorate PCa-related quality of life are needed.
Lingua originale | English |
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pagine (da-a) | 13-22 |
Numero di pagine | 10 |
Rivista | CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ONCOLOGY HEMATOLOGY |
Volume | 108 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2016 |
Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |
Keywords
- Diet
- Dietary intervention
- Exercise
- Geriatrics and Gerontology
- Hematology
- Humans
- Life Style
- Lifestyle intervention
- Male
- Oncology
- Physical activity
- Prostate cancer
- Prostatic Neoplasms
- Quality of Life
- Quality of life
- Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
- Randomized controlled trial
- Risk Factors
- Systematic review