Participant recruitment and eligibility
renal disease, CRC, Cancer
RENAL DISEASE, RECURRENT DISEASE, CANCER
Stage II-III CRC survivors less than five years post-resection and adjuvant chemotherapy were recruited from the gastrointestinal medical oncology clinics at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. Other eligibility criteria included: age 19–75 years; currently engaging in less than 90-minutes of structured moderate- or vigorous-intensity aerobic exercise; no known cardiovascular, metabolic, or renal disease, and no signs/symptoms suggestive of cardiovascular, metabolic, or renal disease per the American College of Sports Medicine’s exercise pre-participation health screening questionnaire, and access to a computer or smart phone. Access to a computer or smart phone was necessary in order to download exercise training data from the Polar A370 device to the participant’s Polar Flow account, which was created by the study team. Patients were excluded if they had clinically evident recurrent disease, and/or a resting systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg and/or resting diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg at the time of baseline testing, and/or functional limitations requiring a walker, scooter, or wheelchair.