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Exercise to Fight Cancer
With scientific support:
– Orthopaedic Research and Education Center “P.N. Soukakos”, P.G. Hospital “Attikon”
– Sports Excellence – Regeneration and Progress -Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
Saturday, 01 June, 2024
13:00 – 14:30
Amphitheatre ‘’G. Papadriellis’’
ROUND TABLE
Exercise to Fight Cancer
Chair:
Panagiotis Koulouvaris, Associate Professor, 1st Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic of Medical School of National Kapodistrian University of Athens
Savvas Tokmakidis, Emeritus Professor of Exercise Physiology, D.P.E.S.S., Democritus University of Thrace
Speakers:
Role of Exercise in Oncology
Christos E. Zois, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace,
Aerobic or resistance exercise? What to choose?
Charilaos Tsolakis, Professor, DPESS, NKUA
The impact of exercise on mental health in patients with cancer
Flora Papitsi, PhD Candidate in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Administration Manager Sports Excellence
Action for Cancer: Precision exercise therapy programs for every cancer patient
Apostolis Skouras, Laboratory Director Sports Excellence
Acute responses of exercise in cancer patients
Ilkka Heinonen, Academy Research Fellow, Turku PET Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine
Abstract
Exercise in oncology is now recognized as an emerging sub-discipline of oncology research and practice. Exercise has now been established as a means of treatment as well as prevention in many chronic diseases, e.g. coronary heart disease, heart failure, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. In the last 20 years with over 200 studies examining the role of exercise in oncology patients with solid and hematological cancers, exercise is now established as a means of cancer prevention and treatment.