This week, our cancer prehabilitation programme Active Together marks supporting 2,000 people across Yorkshire. As we reflect on this achievement, new findings from a major international trial add further weight to the growing evidence behind this approach. The study, led by Queen’s University in Canada, found that exercise may be as effective as drug treatments in preventing cancer from returning.
Our flagship cancer prehabiltation programme, Active Together was successful in winning the "The #RightToRehab award for innovation" category in the Advancing Healthcare Awards last week. Dr Carol Keen, Consultant Physiotherapist, writes about how true collaborative working underpinned the achievement.
This month we welcomed two researchers to the AWRC as part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation fellowship exchange programme led by Yorkshire Cancer Research. Vasiliki Xanthopoulou and Konstantina Karnarou will spend three months at Sheffield Hallam University working primarily alongside Active Together and learning about the wider work of the Centre while sharing their own expertise in sport and exercise science.
Our Director Prof Rob Copeland was one of 18 researchers, volunteers and supporters who returned to the library of the University of Leeds' Old Medical School to recreate the founding of Yorkshire Cancer Research 100 years ago
Phil Daoust of The Guardian visited PAWPH researchers Alex Bugg and Anouska Carter at the AWRC to learn more about lung capacity, efficiency and power, and to experience first-hand how we test lung health in the lab, including spirometry and VO2 max testing.
We were delighted to welcome Gill Furniss, MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough to the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) last week, to find out more about our flagship Active Together programme.
Based on our research in physical activity and cancer, we identify prevention as the most effective long-term approach to improving health outcomes. We argue that equitable, community-led preventative measures are essential to reducing deaths from cancer, which remains one of the UK’s leading causes of mortality.
Drawing on our innovative research, the report sets out how physical activity can help drive the UK Government’s prevention ambitions, reduce health inequalities, and support economic growth.
Richard Gettings is an embedded researcher on our Doncaster Health Determinants Research Collaboration. He was recently part of a team that designed and organised the first Doncaster Muslim Wellness Conference. Richard has written for AWRC Voices about the circumstances that led to the development of the conference, some of the challenges faced, and its underpinning philosophies.
