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Viewing Exercise Oncology Through the Lens of Multidisciplinarity

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Exercise is an important addition to cancer care. Individuals with cancer, however, may face health problems which can be improved with exercise, but which can also be barriers to exercise. Thus, exercise support is pivotal throughout the cancer care trajectory. Which (health-care) professionals should be involved in providing exercise support is dependent on the context and related to the complexity of the health condition and the self-management skills of the patient. Because these factors will change over time, the need for multidisciplinary involvement needs to be regularly reevaluated. In this chapter, a framework to aid decisions on this topic will be discussed and illustrated using cases.

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  1. Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Martijn M. Stuiver

  2. Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Martijn M. Stuiver

  3. Amsterdam UMC, Department of Clinical Epidemiology Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Martijn M. Stuiver

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Stuiver, M.M. (2020). Viewing Exercise Oncology Through the Lens of Multidisciplinarity. In: Schmitz, K. (eds) Exercise Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42011-6_19

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