A growing body of research evidence supports the benefit of exercise for cancer survivors
both during and after cancer treatment. The purpose of this paper is to provide an update on
our previously published review in 2006 on the state of the evidence supporting exercise for survivors
of cancer as well as guidelines for integrating exercise programming in the cancer clinical
setting. First, we provide a brief overview on the benefits of exercise as well as preliminary evidence
supporting the implementation of community-based exercise programs. Second, we summarize
the principles and goals of exercise, and the identified barriers to exercise among cancer
survivors. Finally, we propose an interdisciplinary model of care for integrating exercise programming
into clinical care including guidelines for medical and pre-exercise screening, exercise
testing and programming considerations.