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. 2017 Jan 3;2017(1):CD010802. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010802.pub2

Lötzke 2016.

Methods Randomised controlled trial
Participants Women with diagnosed stage I‐III breast cancer undergoing cytotoxic (neo)adjuvant or endocrine adjuvant treatment
Recruited from a University Hospital's Interdisciplinary Breast Center
Mean age 51.2 years
N = 119
Interventions • Iyengar yoga (yoga postures, breathing techniques), 12 weeks, once weekly for 20 minutes
• Physical exercise, 12 weeks, once weekly for 20 minutes
Outcomes Health‐related quality of life (European Organisation of Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ‐30) at week 12 and week 24
Fatigue (EORTC QLQ‐C30 Fatigue Symptom Scale; 15‐item Cancer Fatigue Scale (CFS‐D)) at week 12 and week 24
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk "Participants were randomized to one of the two intervention groups."
No information on procedure of randomisation
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk No information on allocation concealment
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk No information on blinding
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk No information on blinding
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk "Three patients dropped out at t1 and finally 54 patients at t2 (59%). Reasons could not be documented clearly."
Sample size was not large enough to compensate for dropouts.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk No protocol available but no hint of selective reporting
Other bias Unclear risk "The number of lessons varied from 5 to 12, and the lapse of time, in between the patients performed, varied from 6 weeks to 25 weeks. This variation was not considered in the analysis."
Intervention period and compliance unclear