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  • Clinical Trials

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  • Cancer cachexia is a syndrome of muscle and fat loss causing functional impairment.
  • Physical exercise interventions are being explored to mitigate cancer cachexia.
  • This review is an update of a previous Cochrane Review that found no eligible studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the effectiveness, acceptability, and safety of exercise for adults with cancer cachexia.
  • To compare exercise interventions against usual care, no treatment, or active controls.
  • To evaluate exercise's impact on lean body mass, strength, fatigue, and quality of life.

Main Methods:

  • Searched multiple databases (CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase) up to March 2020 for randomized controlled trials.
  • Included four new studies with 178 adult participants diagnosed with various cancers.
  • Assessed risk of bias and certainty of evidence using GRADE methodology.

Main Results:

  • One study compared strength-based exercise to usual care; found no clear evidence of difference in lean body mass, fatigue, or quality of life.
  • Three studies compared multimodal interventions (including exercise) to usual care; also found no clear evidence of difference in lean body mass or other secondary outcomes.
  • Evidence certainty for all outcomes was rated as very low due to study limitations and imprecision.

Conclusions:

  • Current evidence is insufficient to determine the effectiveness, acceptability, or safety of exercise for cancer cachexia.
  • High-quality randomized controlled trials are necessary to establish exercise's role in managing cancer cachexia.
  • Future research should investigate exercise alone or as part of multimodal interventions across cancer care phases.