The third Alpe D'Huzes cancer rehabilitation program annual meeting

Today the third annual meeting of the Alpe D'Huzes Cancer Rehabilitation (A-Care) program was held in Amsterdam. A-Care is a comprehensive program of eight PhD studies organised in two subprograms to further our knowledge on the effects of exercise in cancer rehabilitation and survival. The first subprogram focusses on clinical research to study the effects and mechanisms of effect of different exercise regimes in different groups of cancer patients. The second subprogram focusses on ways to implement and disseminate succesful exercise interventions. Dr. Laurien Buffart, the acting coordinator of A-CaRe 1 and a recent 'Bas Mulder award laureat, organised the day.

Prof. Rob Newton (see picture), and Drs. Lee Jones and Renate Winkels provided state of the art overviews of the roles of exercise and diet in cancer rehabilitation and survival, and Prof Wim van Harten and Dr. Mai Chinapaw provided overviews of ghe progress of the two subprograms.