Supervised exercise training sessions are critical to ensure a robust test of exercise training efficacy and safety in this setting.
Baseline assessment is standardized and includes history taking, completion of self-administered questionnaires, testing of exercise capacity and blood sampling.
When attending the clinic, patients are asked to perform a six minute walk test as a field test of exercise capacity.
Handgrip strength might, however, serve as a first test to identify patients with low upper limb strength who could then undergo more extensive testing of exercise capacity.
Reductions in fatigue and improvements in mood were also reported, indicating that further testing of exercise interventions in older breast cancer survivors is warranted.
The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a practical and inexpensive test of exercise tolerance that is commonly used to stage disease and evaluate treatment responses in people with ILD [ 2, 7].
After randomization (1 1), subjects in both groups will perform a test battery of exercise tests, questionnaires, and other measurements (see study outcomes) (T0 measurement).
The 6-MWT is not a test of maximal exercise capacity but is a test of submaximal exercise performance [ 6].
In our study, examination of cardiopulmonary exercise tests of the group having exercise program showed significant differences in metabolic parameters after the program with respect to basal values.
