What Do Primary Healthcare Providers and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners in Palestine Need to Know about Exercise for Cancer Patients and Survivors: A Consensual Study Using the Delphi Technique
Table 4
Items on which consensus was not achieved following the two iterative Delphi rounds.
First Delphi round
Second Delphi round
#
Item
Median
IQR
Median
IQR
1
Cancer care providers should know that exercise interventions were unable to eradicate or significantly reduce already established tumors.
5
3
6
3
2
Cancer care providers should know that exercise might deplete reserves in the muscles and amino acids in the plasma. This might limit supply of energy to the immune cells.
4
2
4
3
3
Cancer care providers should know that exercise might increase production of free radicals, at least for short periods of time. This might promote tumors in genetically predisposed individuals.
4
4
5
4
4
Cancer care providers should know that exercise increased the need of antioxidant supplements.
