Joanna Metzner-Sadurski, President of Oncology101.org, Adjunct Professor at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, shared John Hennessy’s pos on LinkedIn, adding:
“This is especially important for rural cancer care.
Structured exercise after cancer treatment is not simply an ‘extra’. This study in patients with colon cancer shows that exercise can improve survival while also reducing healthcare costs—-an outcome rarely seen with a new cancer intervention.
In rural communities, patients often face greater barriers to supportive care, including transportation challenges, long travel distances, limited rehabilitation services, and financial strain. That is why accessible, community-based exercise oncology programs matter.
At Self Regional Healthcare, we have seen how supervised exercise can help patients rebuild strength, mobility, confidence, and independence close to home. The next step is to make exercise oncology a standard part of cancer care-not a service available only to patients who live near major academic centers.
Where a patient lives should not determine whether they can benefit from evidence-based supportive cancer care.
Go Ruiling Yuan, Stephen Shenal!!!
John Hennessy, Associate Principal at Payer Sciences, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Last year, Sami (Papacek) Mansfield and Nigel Brockton walked me through the CHALLENGE trial…to see the forest for the trees. This paper in JCOP really shows the math. The cost per QALY relative to other interventions in oncology should open some eyes. High value! Check out Figure 3.”
Title: Structured Exercise Program After Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer: A Cost-Utility Analysis of the CHALLENGE Trial
Authors: Kelvin K.W. Chan, Ryan W.K. Chu, Matthew C. Cheung, Kerry S. Courneya, Christopher J. O’Callaghan, Janette L. Vardy, Sharlene Gill, Christine Friedenreich, Rebecca K.S. Wong, Haryana M. Dhillon, Victoria Coyle, Neil Sun Chua, Derek J. Jonker, Ralph M. Meyer, Shahid Ahmed, John Raymond Zalcberg, Stephen John Clarke, Patti O’Brien, Patricia A. Tang, Ralph Wong, Howard J. Lim, Matthew E. Burge, Michael Brundage, Annette E. Hay, Dongsheng Tu, Christopher M. Booth,
Read the Full Article on Journal of Clinical Oncology
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