Chronic exercise training intensity, immune cells, and cancer outcomes: a scoping review - PubMed
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- Exercise enhances immune function in cancer patients.
- Vigorous-intensity exercise shows beneficial immunomodulation, like enhanced natural killer cell cytotoxicity.
- Light-to-moderate intensity exercise often results in no significant immunological changes, especially during active treatment.
- Heterogeneity in study designs makes comparisons difficult.
- Few studies report cancer clinical outcomes like disease progression.
- Vigorous exercise may offer greater immune modulation than lower intensities.
- More rigorous trials are needed to confirm findings and establish exercise's role in oncologic care.