"Doing What Only I Can Do": Experiences From Participating in a Multimodal Exercise-Based Intervention in Older Patients With Advanced Cancer-A Qualitative Explorative Study.

Only patients who completed the post-program evaluation testing were interviewed, so experiences of those who dropped out, especially barriers, were missing. Participants may have wanted to give positive answers because of their relationship with the exercise team. The main analyst was also the study coordinator and nurse involved in the intervention, so prior familiarity with participants could bias interpretation. Only intervention-group experiences were analyzed, so the study cannot show what would have happened without the program. The program had several components, so the study cannot separate their contributions.

The authors declared no conflicts of interest.

Do not read the reported benefits as evidence that the program's components work on their own. The study interviewed only patients who completed the post-program evaluation testing, did not compare them with patients who did not receive the program, and cannot separate the contributions of exercise, walking, protein drinks and nurse counseling.