Everyone has heard they should “eat healthy and exercise” for better quality of life, and cancer survivors are no different.
Kinesiology professor, Dr. Lisa Cadmus-Bertram’s research program largely focuses on lifestyle interventions for cancer survivors. Dr. Cadmus Bertram and Jess Gorzelitz, a kinesiology graduate student, opened a clinical trial to study the effects of a strength training program on endometrial cancer survivorship.
“A lot of what we’re interested in is, can we help people gain strength and balance, to be able to do the things they want to do more easily?” Cadmus-Bertram says. “The nice thing about strength training is, the muscle adaptations happen relatively quickly, so participants should be able to feel differences in their strength after a few weeks.”
This study is open and actively seeking women to enroll. Participants do not have to be UW Health patients, though travel to Madison is required a few times during the trial.
Learn more about Dr. Cadmus-Bertram’s research by reading the UW Health article here.
Learn more about the Home-based exercise for strength training (H-BEST) research study and how to participate here.