Exercise interventions on health-related quality of life for patients with cancer during active treatment.

Ensuring quality of life in patients with cancer is a key priority because the growing number of survivors experience many different disease-related physical, psychological, and social effects, as well as treatment-related symptoms. Healthrelated quality of life (HRQOL) has become increasingly important in relation to patient outcomes and is recognized as a patient-reported, multidimensional construct that contains major domains (e.g., physical function, psychological function, social function, economic function, spiritual well-being). The measurement of HRQOL in patients with cancer can provide useful information to guide therapeutic and lifestyle interventions. Exercise interventions have been suggested to improve HRQOL for patients undergoing active treatment. Nurses play an active role in providing exercise interventions, so they must know whether exercise interventions are beneficial during active treatment.