Table 7.
Total cohort | Test completed | Contraindicated | Deferred | |||||||
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At pace | Slower self-paced | Shorter self-paced | Flat self-paced | |||||||
Cancer survivors (total n per group) | 169 | 88 | 24 | 21 | 9 | 20 | 7 | |||
Number provided exercise prescription number (%) | ||||||||||
Exercise prescription intensitya,b Number (% column total) |
154 (91) | 84 (95) | 21 (88) | 19 (90) | 9 (100) | 15 (75) | 6 (86) | |||
Sedentary | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3c | 0 | |||
Light | 96 | 41 | 19 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 0 | |||
Moderate | 41 | 33 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
Vigorous | 14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||
Number not provided exercise prescription number (%) | ||||||||||
No exercise prescription Number (% column total) |
15 (9) | 4 (5) | 3 (12) | 2 (10) | 0 (0) | 5 (25) | 1 (14) | |||
Consultation required before exercise Rxd | 12 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
Healing required before exercise Rxe | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
Declined exercise Rxf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
SEM: standard error of the mean.
aExercise Rx: at pace vs. slower self-paced p = 0.0023, at pace vs. shorter self-paced p = 0.0483, at pace vs. flat self-paced p = 0.0190, at pace vs. contraindicated p = 0.0000, At pace vs. deferred p = 0.0012, Fisher's exact, two-tailed.
bCurrent exercise Hx (Table 2) vs. exercise Rx: total cohort p = 0.0000, at pace p = 0.0000, chi square, two-tailed. slower self-paced p = 0.0001, shorter self-paced p = 0.0002, contraindicated p = 0.0003, Fisher's exact, two-tailed.
cN = 1 balance exercises. N = 1 range of motion exercises. N = 1 activities of daily living only.
dN = 8 cardiac stress test, N = 1 each: exercise-induced cardiac arrythmia, MRI shoulder, Baker's cyst, left upper quadrant pain.
eN = 1 each: onycholysis, surgical incision.
fN = 1 came to clinic for tamoxifen consultation.