Atividade física e câncer: proposta de intervenção educativa durante a pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

The main topic of the present analysis is the relationship between physical activity, cancer, immunity and covid -19. Its justification is the search to explain and evaluate the relationship between the practice of physical activity and different age groups, types of cancer, stage of the disease, phase and type of treatment in progress in the face of the SARS COV-2 pandemic scenario. The general objective of the work is to investigate scientific information about the practice of remote physical activity and its implications during the social isolation imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic on cancer patients. To this end, the following specific objectives were defined: to analyze existing scientific discussions on how physical activity contributes to health promotion in times of the Covid-19 pandemic in cancer patients; to identify a proposal for educational intervention carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic to cancer patients. The present study is a qualitative research with a descriptive approach, through an integrative literature review from 2017 to 2022 in English, by restricting articles that address this topic in other languages, in the databases, PubMed, and ScienceDirect and Scielo. The following descriptors were used: immunology, physical exercise, cancer and COVID. The collected results show that the immune system is safely stimulated by light and moderate intensity exercises. Moderate-intensity aerobic exercises such as brisk walking, dancing, cycling, calf pumping exercises, among others, can be used with cancer patients.