Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients With Lung or Esophageal Cancer Receiving Definitive Radiation Therapy

A Pilot Trial of Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients With Lung or Esophageal Cancer Receiving Definitive Radiation Therapy

Other than optimizing medical management of cardiac risk factors, and reducing radiotherapy (RT) dose to the heart, there currently exist no interventions to mitigate or reverse the adverse cardiac effects of RT. Aerobic exercise has been demonstrated to improve patient quality of life, cardiac outcomes, and cardiorespiratory fitness in patients with cancer receiving cardiotoxic systemic therapies, but the effects of aerobic exercise on patients at high risk for radiation induced heart disease (RIHD) who are not receiving cardiotoxic chemotherapies, such as patients with lung and esophageal cancers, is unknown. In addition, cardiac rehabilitation has not been tested in patients with lung or esophageal cancers.

Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients With Lung or Esophageal Cancer Receiving Definitive Radiation Therapy

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