Table 6.

Characteristics of controlled trials reviewed.

Trial/Author	N	Age	Stage of Cancer	Treatment	Control Groups
During treatment
START [9,20,21,22]	242	49.2	I–IIIA	M-C	AT-UC
Schwartz et al., 2007 [23]	66	50.1 ± 8.7	I–III	C-R	AT-UC
Schwartz & Winters-Stone, 2009 [24]	101	47 ± 9.4	I–III	C	AT-UC
Sagen et al., 2009 [25]	204	55 ± 10	I–III	M/AND-C-R-HT	UC
BEATE [26,27]	95	52.7 ± 10	I–IV	M/L-C	PMR
BEST [8,28,29,30]	155	55.8 ± 9.1	0–III	NC-M/L-R-HT	PMR
Buchan et al., 2016 [55]	40	56	NR	S-C-R-HT	AT
Schmidt et al., 2018 [31]	67	54	NR	S-C	AT-UC
Ammitzbøll et al., 2019 [32,33,34]	158	52	I–III	S/AND-C-HT	UC
Post-treatment
WTBS [10,35,36]	79	53.3 ± 8.7	I–III	AND-C-R	UC
Twiss et al., 2009 [37]	110	58.7 ± 7.5	0–II	S-C-R	UC
Musanti, 2012 [38]	42	50.5	I–IIIB	C-R	AT-CT-F
Schmidt et al., 2012 [39]	33	58 ± 8.4	I–III	M/L-C-R	CGE
Simonavice et al., 2014 [40]	23	64 ± 5	0–III	S-C-R-HT	RT+DP
Hagstrom and colleagues [7,41,42,43,44]	39	51.9 ± 8.8	I–IIA	S-C-R-HT	UC
Cormie et al., 2013 [56]	62	57 ± 10	0–III	S/AND-C-R-HT	UC
PAL [46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54]	295	55.3 ± 8.5	I–III	S/AND-C.HT	UC
Madzima et al., 2017 [45]	33	59 ± 9	0–III	S-C-R-HT	RT + PRO

START = Supervised Trial of Aerobic Versus Resistance Training; BEATE = exercise and relaxation as therapy against fatigue; BEST = exercise and relaxation for breast cancer patients during radiotherapy; WTBS = Weight Training for Breast Cancer Survivors; PAL = Physical Activity and Lymphoedema; UC = usual care; R = radiotherapy; C = chemotherapy; NC = Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; HT = hormonal therapy; S = surgery; M = mastectomy; L = lumpectomy; AND = axillary node dissection; AT = aerobic training; PMR = Progressive muscle relaxation; CGE = conventional gymnastics exercise; F = Flexibility; CT = combined training; RT + DP = resistance training + dried plum; RT + PRO = resistance training+ protein supplementation.