Researchers have found that adults who have undergone successful cancer treatment may become fatigued more quickly than their peers who do not have a history of cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main goal of cancer treatment has been survival, but studies like this suggest that we need also to examine the longer-term effects on health and quality of life,\u201d said Jennifer Schrack, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, US.<\/p>\n
For the study, published in the journal Cancer, researchers examined data from a long-running study of normal ageing, which included periodic treadmill tests of fatigability as well as 400-metre walks to test endurance.<\/p>\n
They found that, on average, participants with a history of cancer treatment reported more fatigue in the treadmill tests and were slower to complete the endurance walks, compared to participants without a cancer history.<\/p>\n
After adjusting for gender- and health-related differences between 334 participants who had a history of cancer and 1,331 who did not, the researchers also found that a cancer history was associated with a 1.6 times greater risk of high perceived fatigability.<\/p>\n
The mean ages were 74 years for the 334 people in the cancer history group and 69 years for the 1,331 in the no-cancer history group.<\/p>\n
By comparison, the team found that being older than 65 years brought a 5.7 times greater risk of high perceived fatigability \u2014 implying that the effect of a cancer history was more than a third as large as the effect of ageing past 65.<\/p>\n
Similarly, a cancer history was associated with 400-metre walk times averaging 14 seconds slower than those for participants with no cancer history.<\/p>\n
The over-65 participants with a cancer history also deteriorated more steeply in their endurance-walk times from one checkup to the next, compared to those without a cancer history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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