Body composition, fatigue and exercise in patients with prostate cancer undergoing androgen‐deprivation therapy

Robert U. Newton, Emily Jeffery, Daniel A. Galvão, Carolyn J. Peddle‐McIntyre, Nigel Spry, David Joseph, James W. Denham, Dennis R. Taaffe

British Journal of Urology · 2018 · 32 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

In patients with prostate cancer treated with ADT, body composition is associated with fatigue, with higher total and trunk FM in those with clinically relevant fatigue. However, following exercise those no longer fatigued had an accompanying substantial increase in LM. Modifying body composition, both LM and FM, in patients with prostate cancer may favourably alter cancer-related fatigue levels and should be a target of exercise medicine in this population.

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