The Role of Exercise During Cancer Treatment
The Role of Exercise During Cancer Treatment
Vigor Orbis, Orbis and Orbis Sports Medical Center will participate in research on effects of physical training during treatment cancer.
Although such research non-core part, we are pleased to deliver a contribution. This consists of project management at the research site Orbis Medical Center and conducting intakes, times of measurement and evaluation with the participants. We will keep you informed of the results. The study called PACT (Physical Activity consistently Cancer Treatment) is an initiative of the Comprehensive Cancer Centre Middle Netherlands and Limburg in collaboration with the University Medical Centre Utrecht and Maastricht.
The PACT is a research study on the effects of physical training in the treatment of breast or colon cancer. Physical training is effective in reducing symptoms of fatigue, healthcare consumption and absenteeism and improving health-related quality of life, physical fitness and body composition? This question, the PACT study in a randomized trial to answer. The PACT study, half the participants follow an exercise program. The other half are asked to maintain their normal pattern of movement. The Comprehensive Cancer Centre Middle Netherlands and Limburg, the PACT study developed in collaboration with the UMC Utrecht and Maastricht University. They collaborate with institutions in the region’s central Netherlands and Limburg that offer exercise. ZonMW (Effectiveness, Impact