Support Care Cancer: Exercise interventions may improve cognitive function in prostate cancer patients.

Exercise is beneficial to the physical function of prostate cancer patients, but its effects on social and cognitive functions are not consistent.
this meta-analysis of exercise intervention in prostate cancer patients has two objectives: the primary purpose is to assess the impact of exercise intervention on social function;
researchers retrieved relevant papers from the Electronic Database (Embase, MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO and the Chinese Database Elty Library) (1987-2019), including manual searches.
, 10 related randomized controlled trials were analyzed using integrated meta-analysis software, and the aggregated averages were used to determine social and cognitive function.
meta-analysis showed that exercise had social function in men with prostate cancer compared to the control group (Hedges' g s 0.35, 95% CI (0.193, 0.515), p slt;0 .001) and cognitive function (Hedges' g s 0.35, 95% CI (0.123, 0.575), p slt;0.01) have an overall beneficial effect.
compared to the control group, the duration of the intervention was 12-16 weeks and 24-48 weeks, providing supervised aerobic exercise combined with resistance exercise courses with small to moderate effects on social function.
one of the exercise groups had a serious but not fatal adverse event due to high exercise intensity (50-75% VO2max).
, as far as we know, this is the first meta-analysis to study the effects of exercise interventions on cognitive function in prostate cancer patients.
we recommend further research to confirm these findings.
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