Professor Newton was an invited speaker at the Cancer Prevention – Physical Activity Virtual Conference hosted by Cancer Research UK and Ludwig Cancer Research from 23-25 February 2021.
Professor Newton presented on “Exercise as Medicine for Cancer” and covered a range of topics including:
- Exercise medicine across the cancer continuum
- Physical activity and exercise associate with cancer specific mortality
- Mechanisms of exercise effects on tumour biology
- Exercise synergy with radiation therapy
- Muscle and fat mass associations with cancer mortality
- Exercise enhancement of chemotherapy
- Interference effect of aerobic exercise on strength and muscle mass gains from resistance training
- Exercise dose tolerance, compliance and capacity for people with cancer
- Exercise mode specificity for ameliorating bone loss in men on ADT for prostate cancer
- Targeted exercise prescription for patients with metastatic bone cancer
- An RCT to determine if exercise causes increased survival for men with advanced prostate cancer the INTERVAL-GAP4 Trial
- Exercise guidelines for patients with cancer
- Telehealth exercise medicine
- Accentuated and eccentric only exercise for patients with cancer
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