Sami (Papacek) Mansfield: Reflections to highlight from ASCO 2024 Total Health
, Founder, Oncology Exercise, Lifestyle Medicine Operations and Implementation Consultant shared a post on LinkedIn:
“This weekend wraps up my 6th asco2024 Total Health | Oncology summer event.
I have so many reflections to share but wanted to highlight a few that I’m considering.
1. The importance of Quality of Life is included in 90% of the presentations not as a measure of symptom management but as a guide for clinical decision making.
2. The role of immunotherapy is giving us the space to make significant progress in progression free and overall survival but the considerations of practical needs such as financial toxicity will be critical to long term success especially with complicated triplet and couplet therapies.
As we better understand the the role of skeletal muscle, oncometabolics research is going to build our toolbox with some exercise interventions which can also be no or minimal cost to the patient.
3. Innovative therapeutic interventions such as TIL therapy in melanoma are completely changing the landscape of disease survival in these patients and are.
The bigger question I have is this.
As we increase the number of survivors across every age through lifespan what are we doing for lifespan.
I listened to an awesome podcast from Peter Attia yesterday. One of my key takeaways was that when we focus on healthspan we will always improve lifespan.
What are you focusing on? Living longer with out the emphasis on living better is essential to our WHY.
Looking forward to the next events starting in Michigan, followed by Memphis and Washington DC.
Join me for an amazing weekend and of course a tabata”
Source: /LinkedIn
Sami Mansfield is the founder of Cancer Wellness for Life. She’s been a certified cancer exercise specialist since 2003 and has dedicated her career to implementing evidence-based lifestyle education, resources and tools into cancer care for both the patients and the providers.