Exercise for Improving Cancer Treatment - PhD Scholarships

Описание: This webinar features information on our exciting new Exercise for Improving Cancer Treatment funded PhD opportunities.

One in two people are diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and there are over 2.2 million people with a previous cancer diagnosis in the UK. Exercise brings numerous proven health benefits to cancer patients, including improved cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, mental health, fatigue and quality of life. Recently, preclinical and clinical studies have shown that exercise during chemo-radiotherapy cycles has potential to improve treatment efficacy, while also helping to ameliorate the well-established cardiotoxic and myotoxic side-effects.

The main aims of this PhD cluster are to: (i) develop an exercise model that can be embedded within the oesophagogastric and colorectal cancer care pathways (ii) demonstrate proof of concept evidence that exercise can influence and potentially improve the efficacy of chemo-radiotherapy treatments in cancer patients; (iii) provide new mechanistic insights into the role of exercise for ameliorating the adverse cardiotoxic and myotoxic side-effects of chemo-radiotherapy; (iv) collect robust qualitative data via survey, focus groups and interviews to underpin the development of good practice implementation guidelines.

The projects are:
Exercise for improving chemo-radiotherapy efficacy in patients diagnosed with oesophagogastric and colorectal cancers

Exercise for ameliorating the cardiotoxic side-effects of chemo-radiotherapy in patients diagnosed with oesophagogastric and colorectal cancers

Exercise for attenuating the myotoxic side-effects of chemotherapy

Patient and health professional perceptions of embedding exercise into the cancer chemo-radiotherapy treatment pathways: a qualitative study