Sharlene Gill, Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, shared a post on X:
“Exercise Saves Lives After Colon Cancer
come watch Dr Chris Booth present the results of the ph3 CO.21 CHALLENGE study – don’t walk, run!
Hall B1 430-6pm to our patients, my GI group
The Canadian Cancer Trials Group and our partner GI Cancer Institute and AGITG for sticking with this trial over the past 15 years!”
Title: CHALLENGE study – Structured Exercise after Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer
Authors: Kerry S. Courneya, Janette L. Vardy, Christopher J. O’Callaghan, Sharlene Gill, Christine M. Friedenreich, Rebecca K.S. Wong, Haryana M. Dhillon, Victoria Coyle, Neil S. Chua, Derek J. Jonker, Philip J. Beale, Kamal Haider, Patricia A. Tang, Tony Bonaventura, Ralph Wong, Howard J. Lim, Matthew E. Burge, Stacey Hubay, Michael Sanatani, Kristin L. Campbell, Fernanda Z. Arthuso, Jane Turner, Ralph M. Meyer, Michael Brundage, Patti O’Brien, Dongsheng Tu, Christopher M. Booth
Aparna Parikh, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Gastrointestinal Oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, shared this post, adding:
“Tremendous! I would’ve loved to see this be a plenary. Showing that exercise can have the same impact as some adjuvant therapies in the plenary would have made such a statement.”
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