REACH - Research in Exercise And Cancer Health
About the show
Being a cancer survivor brings its own set of challenges that can affect every aspect of your life. Join Ciaran Fairman, alongside leading researchers, doctors, health professionals and cancer survivors themselves, as they bring you the latest in exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle behaviors to reduce cancer risk and improve survivorship.
Episodes
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Episode 60: EP 58 | Kikkan Randall: 5x time Olympian diagnosed with breast cancer.
June 5th, 2019 | 52 mins 10 secs
Kikkan Randall is an American, Olympic champion . Kikkan won a gold medal in the winter olypmics in 2018. A few months later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In this episode, we chat about her experiences as an olympian, along...
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Episode 59: EP 57 | Dr. Kerri Winters-Stone: Exercise interventions targeting bone health & couples exercising together.
May 17th, 2019 | 1 hr 10 mins
Kerri is a Professor with the OHSU School of Nursing and is Co-Director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute's Community Partnership Program and Co-Leader of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute's Cancer Prevention and Control Program. In this...
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Episode 58: EP 56 | Dr. Alex Ireland: Bone physiology and adaptation
May 2nd, 2019 | 45 mins 1 sec
Alex Ireland is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Healthcare Science at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). His main research interest is in bone mechanoadaptation and the influence of muscular forces on bone loading, assessed using imaging...
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Episode 57: EP 55 | Dr. Eric Rawson: Creatine supplementation, mechanisms, safety and effects.
April 17th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
Dr. Eric Rawson is a professor and department chair at Messiah College in PA and is a world-renowned expert in the area of nutrition, exercise and supplementation. In this episode, we chat about creatine supplementation, the mechanisms, safety and...
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Episode 56: EP 54 | Dr. James Steele: Minimal dose approach to resistance training. Can we actually measure effort?
March 13th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
Dr. James Steele is an Associate Professor of Sports and Exercise Science at Southampton Solent University and Principal Investigator at ukactive Research Institute. In this episode, we chat about the minimum dose approach to resistance...
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Episode 55: EP | 53 Dr. Jennifer McQuade: Melanoma, body weight and gut microbiome.
February 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
Jennifer McQuade is an Assistant Professor and Physician Scientist in Melanoma Medical Oncology. In this episode, we chat about all things body composition, gut microbiome and cancer. We talk about how weight may be linked to survival in...
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Episode 48: EP 46 | Dr. Morten Quist: Exercise in lung cancer; exercise during chemotherapy for patients in Denmark
October 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 6 mins
Morten Quist is a physiotherapist clinician-researcher with expertise in exercise for patients with cancer. Besides his research he has co-founded and co-created two exercise communities in Denmark (Proof of Life and PACT) for both cancer...
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Episode 47: EP 45 | Dr. Jessica Scott: Cardiotoxicity and Cancer/Exercise in metastatic breast cancer
August 28th, 2018 | 45 mins
Jessica Scott is a principal investigator out of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she investigates the effects of aerobic exercise in various types of cancers. In this episode, we chat about the mechanisms of cardiotoxicity in...
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Episode 46: EP 44 | Keith Thraen-Borowski: Exercise Oncology Twitter Conference
August 15th, 2018 | 52 mins 22 secs
Keith is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Kinesiology & Biology at Loras College. He is also the Director of the Loras Cancer Research & Exercise Science Laboratory (CARES Lab), where his research agenda focuses globally on the...
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Episode 45: EP 43 | Dr. Anna Campbell: Exercise oncology education for health and fitness professionals.
July 31st, 2018 | 56 mins 8 secs
Anna Campbell is a senior lecturer at Edinburg Napier University and the founder of CanRehab, a company that provides education and training for health and fitness professionals interested in exercise oncology. In this episode, we chat...
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Episode 44: Ep 42|Dr. Tormod Nilsen: Resistance Exercise, Prostate Cancer and reporting exercise oncology trials
July 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 10 mins
In this episode, I chat to Tormod about some of his groups work in resistance exercise and prostate cancer. We also chat about how we can do a better job of reporting our exercise trials, particularly in regards to modified sessions, where...
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Episode 43: EP 41: Tori DeScenza & Khara Walker: Losing a parent to cancer.
June 12th, 2018 | 55 mins 45 secs
Cancer doesn't just affect the person diagnosed; it can affect the whole family. In this episode, Tori and Khara offer incredible insight into what it's like to be a primary caregiver for someone diagnosed with cancer. Moreover, Tori and Khara both...