Cancer diagnosis and treatment doesn't have to be a passive
experience, and it shouldn't be. Dr. Kathryn Schmitz's Moving Through
Cancer introduces a 21-day program of strength training and exercise
for cancer prevention and recovery.
Go from diagnosis to thriving with this empowering guide to using
strength training and exercise to improve your mental and physical
health before, during, and after cancer diagnosis and treatment.
This groundbreaking program will show you how to use exercise and
movement to:
- Recover more quickly from surgery
- Withstand chemotherapy (or other drug treatments) or radiation with
fewer side effects
- Bounce back to daily life following cancer treatments
- Prevent loss of function or fitness due to treatment
- Return to work more quickly or stay at work throughout treatment
- Protect against late side effects of treatment that come years after
diagnosis
Leading exercise oncology researcher Dr. Kathryn Schmitz shows you how
to prepare for cancer treatment and begin regularly exercising in just
21 days using five key steps: Move, Lift, Eat, Sleep, and Log. Both
informative and practical, Moving Through Cancer explains the science
of healing and prevention and delivers a paradigm-shifting message for
patients, doctors, and caregivers about using exercise to live with and
beyond cancer.
FOR READERS OF: Anticancer Living and The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen.
A PRACTITIONER AND CAREGIVER: Dr. Kathryn Schmitz is a pracademic
(practitioner + academic) and a caregiver: In 2010, the publication of
one of her trials in The New England Journal of Medicine and the
Journal of the American Medical Association overturned years of
entrenched dogma and conventional wisdom that told breast cancer
survivors to avoid upper body exercise. In 2016, Dr. Schmitz's wife,
Sara, was diagnosed with stage 3 squamous cell carcinoma--she is
currently NED (no evidence of disease) and cancer free. Moving Through
Cancer is inspired by Dr. Schmitz's professional and personal
experience with cancer.
HELPS PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS TO COMBAT THE POWERLESSNESS OF THE CANCER
JOURNEY: Dr. Schmitz's empowering message will not only resonate with
anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer but with their family and
loved ones as well. Dr. Schmitz is able to give life back to readers by
providing results that include better sleep, better sex, less chemo
brain, reduced nausea, and improved recovery.
PARADIGM-SHIFTING PROTOCOL: Moving Through Cancer is the center of Dr.
Schmitz's campaign to have doctors prescribing exercise to cancer
patients as common practice by 2029.
THE FIRST MAINSTREAM EXERCISE-FOR-CANCER BOOK: Until now,
exercise-for-cancer books have been limited to academic approaches or
one-cancer-specific (breast) or one-exercise specific (yoga, pilates)
books. Moving Through Cancer is for all cancer patients and survivors
and their caregivers.
GREAT FOR THE CLASSROOM: Students and teachers will want to use these
techniques in their classrooms to provide a better understanding of how
to treat cancer patients.
Perfect for: 18+, Health enthusiasts, rehab, exercise, academia, medical
professionals
Digital audio edition introduction read by the author.
