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Table 1 Walking intervention for people with recurrent or metastatic cancer: definitions of recurrent or metastatic disease

From: CanWalk: study protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of a walking intervention for people with recurrent or metastatic cancer

Primary tumor

Definition

Breast

Metastatic disease - stage 4, for example, visceral, bone, soft tissue, and so on.

Not local recurrence

Colorectal

Metastatic - stage 4 - M1

Gynecological

Ovary - symptomatic stage 3/4/recurrence

Cervix - stage 3/4

Endometrial - stage 3/4

Vulva - stage 3/4

Hematological

Lymphoma (high and low grade) within first 6 months of relapse, myeloma

Head and neck

Metastatic disease, recurrence

Melanoma

Stage 3/4

Prostate

Distant metastatic disease or bone metastases (T3, N1, M1)

Upper gastrointestinal

Stage 3/4, oesophago-gastric