• Jing Sun, Li Ge, Chunjuan Cao, Wen Yao, and Xiaoling Wang.
• Department of Oncology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
• Afr Health Sci. 2023 Jun 1; 23 (2): 298304298-304.

ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of resistance exercise (RE) in elderly cancer patients (ECPs).MethodsConvenience sampling was used to select 240 ECPs, who received radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the Department of Oncology of a Level-A tertiary hospital in Shanghai from September 2019 to August 2020, and they were randomized to control (CON) and experimental (EXP). After a 12-week intervention, the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F), the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIMSM) were used to evaluate the effects of RE in two groups.ResultsAfter 12-week intervention, the total FIMSM score and the scores of self-care, transfers, locomotion, communication, and social cognition of EXP was higher than before, and compared with CON (P<0.05). However, the intervention did not effectively improve the sphincter control (P>0.05). The SF-36 and CD-RISC scores of EXP were higher than those of CON, and FACIT-F score was lower than that of CON with statistically significant differences (P<0.05).ConclusionRE effectively relieved the cancer-related fatigue (CRF) in ECPs, improved their mental state, quality of life and mobility.© 2023 Sun J et al.

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