Anirban Maitra, Professor of Pathology and Medicine at NYU Langone Health, shared a post on X about a paper by Kerry S. Courneya et al. published in NEJM:
“Clinical trials of lifestyle interventions like exercise or diet in patients with cancer will typically have no pharma sponsors. That’s why foundations or the federal government have to fund such trials.
For example, the CHALLENGE trial by the Canadian Cancer Society.”
Title: 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
You can read the Full Article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
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