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Table 1 MEDLINE search strategy

From: Efficacy of resistive exercise on skeletal muscle-related outcomes in cancer survivors: a systematic review protocol

Number

Search items

1

Exp Neoplasms/

2

(cancer* or oncolog* or tumor* or tumour* or neoplas* or carcino* or adenocarcinoma* or metasta*).mp.

3

1 or 2

4

Resistance training/ or resistance exercise/ or weight training/ or plyometric exercise/ or strength training/

5

(weight lifting* or resistance band* or total body* or free weight* or functional move* or hypertrophy training* or repetition maximum* or resistance machine*)

6

Exp Sports/

7

Exp Physical therapy/

8

4 or 5 or 6 or 7

9

3 and 8

  1. *Is indicated as a Boolean truncation (or wildcard) operator for database searching, which attaches to the stem of a word and searches for any word that includes that stem or the letters before the asterisk