Gait and balance disorders in cancer patients

Cancer and cancer treatments can produce both acute and chronic effect which can to provide to functional changes, that is important for the patient, and the health care provider. Balance and gait disorders are interrelated, and important it to the performance of activities daily living. The goal of paper is review information on gait and balance disorders in cancer patients. This article presented physiopathology of gait and balance disorders in patients with cancer, their possibility clinical assessment as well as treatment. Cancer and cancer treatments can cause neurologic, musculoskeletal and systemic effects, which can influence on body movement dysfunction. Cancer can affect nerves by direct infiltration or compression by tumor, fibrosis from radiotherapy, neurotoxicity from chemotherapy, or paraneoplastic disorders. Treatment of balance and gait disorders in cancer patients should incorporate both medical and rehabilitative intervention.