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4. A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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Correia, Inês Ramos, Cardoso, Vasco, Cargaleiro, Catarina, Magalhães, João P., Hetherington-Rauth, Megan, Rosa, Gil B., Malveiro, Carla, de Matos, Leonor Vasconcelos, Cardoso, Maria João, Sardinha, Luís B., and NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (NMS|FCM)

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SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Muscle strength, Exercise oncology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Cardiorespiratory fitness, Body composition
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Funding Information: This work was conducted at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Human Performance (CIPER), unit I&D 447 (UIDB/00447/2020), Faculty of Human Kinetics of the University of Lisbon, and supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology , the Portuguese Ministry of Science. IRC and GBR are supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology ( IRC: SFRH/BD/149394/2019 ; GBR: 2020.07856.BD ). Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors Objectives: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate the effects of home-based exercise on physical fitness (cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle strength, and body composition) in cancer patients undergoing active treatment. Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis and Grading Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation of the evidence. Methods: A comprehensive search of existing literature was carried out in four electronic databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and PEDro. All databases were searched for randomized controlled trials assessing the effects of home-based exercise on physical fitness outcomes in cancer patients during active treatment. Multicomponent interventions (i.e., exercise plus diet/behavioral therapy) were excluded. The methodological quality of each study was assessed using the Revised Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomized trials. Meta-analytical procedures were performed when appropriate and standardized mean differences (SMD) were calculated. Results: Twenty-eight randomized controlled trials (n = 2424 cancer patients) were included. Most of the interventions were conducted in breast cancer patients (n = 13) during the adjuvant treatment period (n = 17); 18 studies included a walking component in their home-based protocol. Home-based exercise was effective at improving the distance of the 6-minute walk test (k = 6; SMD = 0.321, p = 0.010). However, the results were no longer significant when performing sensitivity analysis based on exclusively walking (k = 1) and non-exclusively walking interventions (k = 5; SMD = 0.258; p = 0.072). No effects were found for muscle strength and body composition outcomes (p > 0.05). Conclusions: Regular home-based exercise programs are an effective strategy to improve 6-minutes walk test in cancer patients undergoing active treatment. Conversely, no alterations were found in muscle strength and body composition. proof epub_ahead_of_print

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2023

6. COVID-19 and aging: Identifying measures of severity

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Neves, Maria Teresa, primary, de Matos, Leonor Vasconcelos, additional, Vasques, Ana Carolina, additional, Sousa, Inês Egídio, additional, Ferreira, Inês, additional, Peres, Susana, additional, Jesus, Susana, additional, Fonseca, Cândida, additional, and Mansinho, Kamal, additional

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2021
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8. Metastatic extramammary paget disease, a remarkable clinical case and a brief review of a rare disease.

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Fernandes L, Graça J, de Matos LV, Sampaio R, Baleiras MM, Ferreira F, Pinto MM, Miranda H, and Martins A

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Extramammary Paget Disease (EMPD) is an often-misdiagnosed rare disorder, whose cause remains unknown. Diagnosis is confirmed by skin biopsy. Primary treatment for EMPD is surgery. Recurrence is common in the first two years and prognosis is good if the disease is localized and there is no underlying associated cancer. Patients with invasive and metastatic EMPD are uncommon and exhibit a poor prognosis, even when there is good response to a first chemotherapy line. Multiple chemotherapeutic regimens, with varying levels of success, have been attempted, but standard of care is not established. The central nervous system seems to be a common metastatic site with better survival than visceral metastasis.We report a case of metastatic EMPD that addresses the difficulties associated with the treatment of this rare disease, that has no current guidelines., Competing Interests: Conflict of interest: the authors declare no potential conflict of interests., (©Copyright: the Author(s).)

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2020
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