THE ORIGINAL ONCOLOGY EXERCISE QUALIFICATION
CETI has trained more than 20,000 health and fitness professionals across 60 countries to work safely with cancer patients and survivors.
24
YEARS
20,000+
SPECIALISTS TRAINED
60
COUNTRIES
26
CANCER TYPES +
CHILDHOOD
Curriculum guided by a 23-member Medical Advisory Board, including Dr. Anna L. Schwartz, PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN, a co-author of the ACSM Guidelines for Cancer Survivors.
THE OPPORTUNITY
There are more cancer survivors alive today than at any point in history — and many are told to exercise by an oncologist with nobody nearby to refer them to.
General fitness certifications don’t cover surgical contraindications, lymphedema risk, treatment side effects, or how any of it changes what is safe to program. That gap is why survivors go untrained, why hospitals often have nowhere to refer, and why demand for qualified specialists outstrips supply in most regions.
53.5 million
people worldwide alive within five years of a cancer diagnosis 1
18.6 million
cancer survivors in the United States — projected to exceed 22 million by 2035 2
76%
of US adults live with at least one chronic condition 3
¹ IARC / GLOBOCAN 2022: five-year global cancer prevalence. ² American Cancer Society, Cancer Treatment & Survivorship Statistics 2025 (as of 1 January 2025). ³ CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2023 — 76.4% of US adults, approximately 194 million people.
Start free and see the material for yourself, or ask Andrea directly whether this fits what you do.
The colorectal cancer section is free. Explore the course options and current payment plans.
WHY SPECIALIZE
Four things change when you become the person in your area trained for this — and each one matters to somebody different.
General certifications don’t cover surgical contraindications, lymphedema risk, or how treatment changes what is safe to program. Almost nobody in your market holds one that does.
That makes you the person an oncology team can refer to, rather than one practitioner among many justifying a rate. For a hospital or facility, the same holds at organizational scale.
There are more cancer survivors alive today than at any point in history, and many are told to exercise by an oncologist with nobody nearby to refer them to.
Qualifying puts you in that gap — whether that means sliding-scale places, a partnership with a local cancer charity, or simply becoming the name your community passes around.
Referrals arrive from cancer centers, nurse navigators and survivorship coordinators rather than from advertising, so the pipeline is steadier and clients stay longer.
It opens work hourly sessions do not: small groups, senior living programs, hospital wellness, and virtual sessions for immunocompromised clients.
CETI publishes no earnings figure, because we have not surveyed our graduates to establish one.
Many specialists come to this for one person — a mother in treatment, a long-standing client with a diagnosis nobody prepared them for, their own recurrence.
The qualification tells you what the surgery did, what the treatment is doing now, which movements to avoid and which to rebuild, and when to refer rather than program. You stop guessing on behalf of someone you love.
FIND YOUR PATH
FITNESS PROFESSIONALS
Build a specialty almost no one in your market has — and a reason for physicians to send you clients.
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Add evidence-based exercise programming to the clinical care you already deliver, across the full treatment continuum.
INSTITUTIONS
Train your staff, build a survivorship program, or bring CETI into your curriculum. Group rates and customized cohorts available.
SURVIVORS, PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS
Some of the best specialists started as patients, or as the person sitting beside one. No clinical background is required to qualify — several of the specialists featured across this page began exactly there.
WHAT NO OTHER CERTIFICATION INCLUDES
Most certifications end at the exam. The Everything Package includes a personalized business launch plan, built on 24 years of what has actually worked for CETI’s most successful specialists.
Private training, small groups, virtual sessions, onsite senior living programs, wellness retreats, and more.
Package menus, session and class rates, break-even funding, renewals, memberships, and group discounts.
Local population, survivor estimates, nearby cancer centers, revenue opportunity, local barriers, and financial aid.
A prioritized, tiered list of healthcare referral contacts — cancer centers, nurse navigators, survivorship coordinators — plus scripts, collateral, and follow-up cadence.
Andrea teaches this curriculum in person — certification courses, hospital in-services, university programs and conference workshops, on four continents. To discuss bringing one to your organization, call her directly on 1-503-502-6776 or send a message.
START HERE · FREE
Colorectal cancer — the surgical procedures, what each one leaves behind, the acute and chronic side effects, the contraindications, and how to program around all of it.
Not a summary. Not a sample chapter. One complete diagnostic, exactly as it appears in the 15th Edition, and one of the twenty-six cancer types in the full qualification.
It is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and one of the most likely to walk into your studio. A resection changes core function, abdominal loading and what a client can tolerate after eating. Almost no general certification covers it.
Free to join. No payment. No commitment.
1
It costs nothing and asks nothing of you.
2
By the end you’ll know how to work safely with one of them — and exactly how much you didn’t know before you started.
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If the depth is what you want, the full qualification is the same standard across every diagnosis.
