Andrea Leonard President/Founder of CETI teaching case studies What Exactly is a Cancer Exercise Specialist & Why Should You Refer to One? As a 37-year cancer survivor and 29-year fitness veteran, I can speak firsthand to the benefits of exercise for cancer patients. Before I go into my…
Customized Exercise Programming – Cervical Cancer Sharon received a referral for a client with invasive cervical cancer. She’s a physical therapist but has worked mostly with orthopedic patients. She recently became a Cancer Exercise Specialist and asked if she could hire me to help her with and teach…
Customized Exercise Programming - Pancreatic Cancer Will received a referral for a client with pancreatic cancer. He’s been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for three years, but this is his first client with pancreatic cancer. Although it was caught earlier than most, Will is unsure if he can…
Hormone therapy (also called hormonal therapy, hormone treatment, or endocrine therapy) slows or stops the growth of hormone-sensitive tumors by blocking the body’s ability to produce hormones or by interfering with effects of hormones on breast cancer cells. Tumors that are hormone insensitive do not have hormone receptors and do…
Jim received a referral for a client with bladder cancer. He’s a PT assistant and has been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for three years, but this is his first client with bladder cancer. He asked if he could hire me to help him with and teach him how…
Jeff received a referral for a client with bone cancer. He’s been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for a year, but this is his first client with bone cancer. He asked if he could hire me to help him with and teach him how to put together Stan’s exercise…
Customized Exercise Programming - Colorectal Cancer Ben received a referral for a client with colon cancer. He’s been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for two years, but this is his first client with colorectal cancer. He asked if he could hire me to help him with and teach him…
Customized Exercise Programming - Prostate Cancer Jim received a referral for a client with prostate cancer. He’s been a Cancer Exercise Specialist for a little over a year, but this is his first client with prostate cancer. He asked if he could hire me to help him with…
Exercise & Pediatric Cancer According to the World Health Organization, cancer is a leading cause of death for children with 300,000 new cases and 80,000 deaths each year among children aged 0-19 years. Children with cancer in low- and middle-income countries are four times more likely…
Lung cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in men and the third most commonly occurring cancer in women. There were 2,093,876 new cases and 1,761,007 deaths worldwide in 2018. Tobacco use is to blame for 85% of all lung cancers. The other 15% arise mainly from occupational…
