Logan G. Briggs, MD, presented “Outpatient Exercise, Nutrition, and Psychologic Support and Pre-Rehabilitation for Urologic Cancer” for the Grand Rounds in Urology audience in November 2023.
How to cite: Briggs, Logan G. MD. “Outpatient Exercise, Nutrition, and Psychologic Support and Pre-Rehabilitation for Urologic Cancer.” November 2023. Accessed Jul 2024. https://grandroundsinurology.com/outpatient-exercise-nutrition-and-psychologic-support-and-pre-rehabilitation-for-urologic-cancer/
Outpatient Exercise, Nutrition, and Psychologic Support and Pre-Rehabilitation for Urologic Cancer
Logan G. Briggs, MD, discusses the results of his upcoming paper on the efficacy of a range of interventions in improving outcomes for urologic cancer patients. Dr. Briggs and his co-authors examined over 400 randomized control trials (RCTs) that met criteria for design, population, review, and other factors, with 372 focusing on prostate cancer, 24 on bladder cancer, 20 on kidney cancer, and 14 on testicular cancer.
The research team then examined the outcomes of nutrition, exercise, counseling, and pre-/rehabilitative interventions with the quality of life, physical/functional performance, cost-effectiveness, cardiometabolic profile, erectile function, and continence for each disease. Their analysis of these RCTs showed that 71% of interventions achieved positive results.
With a goal of creating personalized, cost-effective pre-/rehabilitation programs for urologic cancer patients, Dr. Briggs suggests further work will need to be done in analyzing cost effectiveness, variance by race/ethnicity, and clinical significance of these findings. He also further discusses the significant amount of data from these RCTs showing the potential importance of these interventions for men with prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Logan Briggs is a Urology Resident at Mayo Clinic Arizona. He is from Issaquah, Washington, went to undergrad at Dartmouth and medical school at Harvard. His collegiate swimming and now postgraduate endurance sports career (having participated in four Ironmans including Kona World Championships, and multiple marathons including Boston) inform his research interests in exercise and nutrition. He is passionate about how we and our patients may utilize exercise and nutrition to mitigate the morbidity and mortality associated with medical diseases (especially urologic cancers) and their treatments. He has published extensively on this topic.
