Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Exercise Oncology”
Due to the debilitating side effects that can often accompany chemotherapy treatment exercising might seem like the last thing on your agenda. But what if we told you that exercise can actually help with mitigating these terrible side effects? Here we explain why everyone should be exercising during chemotherapy and how to do it safely and effectively. What is chemotherapy? …
June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. Bowel Cancer affects 1 in 13 Australians and is the second deadliest cancer in Australia. Sadly, Bowel Cancer is becoming more common in young people like Jo who was diagnosed with Bowel Cancer just before her 30th birthday. Jo started with Movement Against Cancer (MAC) in the middle of last year and we recently had a chat with Jo about her experience being a young person diagnosed with bowel cancer.
Whether it be through the news, through social media, or just a chat between friends, conversations around mental health are beginning to get the attention it so desperately deserves. So then what exactly is Mental Health? And what impact can a cancer diagnosis have on our Mental Health?
In the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic we have provided some practical tips and strategies on how you can create an achievable exercise routine from your own home!
The current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has left us all with a sense of uncertainty and many questions. We’d like to take the chance to answer a few of those questions that we have come across, namely those that may be particularly relevant for people living with cancer
What if I told you we had something readily available that would assist with reducing the impact of cancer-related side effects? This blog explains that it may not be as crazy as it first sounds..
Ok we get it, we get it… there are guidelines and we need to follow them. But who actually decided on these guidelines? And more importantly what do these guidelines mean and why do they exist?
Take us down the path that led you to become an EP? Growing up I played every sport under the sun and I wanted to channel this love of sport into something I could do on a day to day basis. Unfortunately, I was slightly above average at multiple sports but nothing I could make a career out of. During …
Take us down the path that led you to become an EP? Growing up I had a love of competitive sport and the way the body could be trained to facilitate performance. 3 years of an undergraduate degree came and went and I still didn’t really know exactly where I wanted to steer my career. I started working in the …
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common side effect of several chemo agents (we’re looking at you, Oxaliplatin, Taxanes and Vinca Alkaloids) which can resolve after several months or linger permanently. It is characterised by pain and/or altered sensations (tingling, numbness or pins and needles), most often in the extremities (hands and feet) but sometimes in areas closer to the …