• Yeny Concha-Cisternas, María Adela Martínez-Sanguinetti, Ana María Leiva, Alex Garrido-Méndez, Carlos Matus-Castillo, Ximena Díaz-Martínez, Carlos Salas, Karina Ramírez-Alarcón, Miquel Martorell, Igor Cigarroa, Nicole Lassarre-Laso, Claudia Troncoso, Ferrari Gerson Luis de Moraes GLM Centro de Investigación en Fisiología del Ejercicio (CIFE), Universidad Mayor, Chile., Ana María Labraña, Solange Parra, Fanny Petermann-Rocha, and Carlos Celis-Morales.
• Escuela de Kinesiología, Facultad de Salud, Universidad Santo Tomás, Chile.
• Rev Med Chil. 2020 Feb 1; 148 (2): 168-177.

BackgroundOne of the side effects of cancer treatment is a low level of physical activity (PA) due to fatigue and pain.AimTo quantify PA levels in Chilean people with cancer.Material And MethodsAnalysis of the National Health Survey 2016-2017 including 6,233 participants, comparing those with and without a self-report of cancer was conducted. Levels of PA and sitting time were assessed using the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire.Results3% of participants [confidence intervals (CI): 2.6; 3.9] reported having cancer and 34% [95% CI: 22.7; 46.7] of these reported being physically inactive, compared to 25% [95% CI: 22.5; 27,3] of those without cancer. Participants with cancer performed 56 and 77 minutes/day lower vigorous and total PA than participants without cancer. No differences between groups were observed for commuting PA, moderate PA and sedentary time. Lower level of PA was independent of the years elapsed since the diagnosis of cancer.ConclusionsPeople with cancer are less physically active than their counterparts without the disease.

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