8 Minute Interview on Exercise Medicine Professor Newton was interviewed by Robyn Williams on ABC National “The Science Show” to discuss tailoring exercise prescription to address specific morbidities of chronic disease and how exercise medicine is an adjuvant & adjunct therapy to surgery and other cancer treatments. This is a short 8min audio which [...]
14 Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Questionnaires added to MyExerciseMedicine The team has been busy adding new assessments to the platform with the latest being 14 FACT questionnaires covering a range of specific cancers. While the FACT-G can be used for all cancers, these additional tools drill down to specifics of disease and treatment [...]
We wish to bring to the attention of all subscribers to MyExerciseMedicine that people with cancer in particular those that are 70 years or older are at greater risk of developing more serious problems from COVID-19. ASCO has just released about an article Coronavirus 2019: What People With Cancer Need to Know It remains [...]
The ASCO Post published an article on the 18th March 2020 describing a study published in The Lancet Oncology reporting that "patients with cancer may be at a higher risk of COVID-19 respiratory disease requiring admission to hospital than individuals without cancer, and that those with cancer who contract the virus have a higher [...]
Patients with cancer and in particular those that are older may be especially vulnerable to COVID-19. This makes it highly problematic for cancer patients to exercise as group participation is risky and despite the best efforts of exercise clinics and fitness centres to clean equipment and take precautions the risk may be just too [...]
Exercise medicine is rapidly being adopted world wide Dr Newton was very pleased to present at the Breast Cancer Network Australia Plan B and Plan C Conferences on 11 August 2018. The event was sold out and both audiences were engaged and interested in exercise medicine for cancer management. A consistent theme across [...]
