Please join us at 4:00 PM PST on December 19th, 2025 in welcoming Dr. Eisuke Ochi for his talk: “From evidence to practice in Japan: the potential of exercise physiology in oncology”
In this talk, Prof. Eisuke Ochi will summarize current guidance and evidence in Japan on exercise for people living with and beyond cancer, highlighting safety, quality of life, fatigue, cardiorespiratory fitness, patient experience, adherence, and the need to individualize FITT by diagnosis and phase. He will use intervention studies to illustrate physiology-guided choices for safe intensity and modality. He will also introduce efforts in Japan, including national recommendations, Japanese Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (JASCC) education and workforce training, and surveys informing real-world implementation. In addition, he will present Japan-origin evidence from his team’s intervention programs currently underway across multiple cancers, including breast, lung, and esophageal.
Register here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a8FO9sxiJVRLqWa
Please join us at 9:00 AM CEST on January 22nd, 2026 in welcoming Dr. Alejandro Lucia for his talk on Physical exercise and anticancer immunity.
Although the biological mechanisms behind the antitumorigenic effects of exercise remain to be defined, an improvement in cancer immunosurveillance is emerging as an important factor. After a quick overview of the immune system and its potential to combat cancer, in my presentation I will address the importance of muscular activity for maintaining a healthy immune system (notably, through the release of some myokines). I will then discuss the effects of a single bout of exercise (i.e., ‘acute’ exercise) and those of ‘regular’ exercise (i.e., repeated bouts) on immunosurveillance against tumors. Indeed, different immune cell subtypes seem to be stimulated by exercise to infiltrate tumors. I will also address the postulated mechanisms and the clinical implications of this area of research, as well as research caveats and future perspectives.
Registration link will be available January 1st, 2026.
Please join us at 12:00 PM EST on March 19th, 2026 in welcoming Dr. Kerri Winters-Stone for her talk on Reducing falls and frailty in cancer survivors: Trials and tribulations of clinical exercise trials with non-continuous outcomes.
This talk will present the design, conduct, analytic and interpretation of two clinical exercise oncology trials designed to reduce falls and frailty in cancer survivors: GET FIT and GET FIT Prostate. There are unique challenges with clinical trials with primary outcomes that are event rates or categorical data that impact the design, analysis and interpretation of study success or failure. In addition to presenting study outcomes, these challenges will be discussed along with where to go in this field in the future.
Registration link will be available Feburary 27th, 2026.