PEAK-RC – Participating Exercise Prehabilitation to Keep up Function Capacity for Radical Cystectomy: A Window-of-Opportunity Randomized Controlled Trial
Dr. Yang
The PEAK-RC study is a randomized controlled trial testing the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a HIIT intervention that prepares bladder cancer patients for radical cystectomy.
RiskDialogue – Making healthy behaviour changes easy: AI-enabled dialogue-driven app for personalized cancer prevention
Dr. Yang
About 40% of cancer cases in Canada could be prevented following CCS recommendations to “make healthy choices” and the creation of health-supporting environments.
The PEAK program – Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Cancer Prehabilitation Program to Enhance Knowledge, Improve Mental Health and Keep Up Physical Function
Dr. Yang
“It is a marathon, not a sprint”. The journal of facing cancer is often likened to a marathon rather than a spirit, as it involves challenges that span from diagnosis to long-term survivorship.
PEAK-AS – Exercise intervention for prostate cancer men managed by active surveillance: a knowledge survey
Dr. Yang
Active surveillance has been recommended as the preferred management strategy to avoid or postpone immediate therapy for low-risk (potentially intermediate-risk) prostate cancer…
PEAK-RP – Participating in Tai Chi to Reduce Anxiety and Keep up Physical Function: a Prehabilitation Intervention for Radical Prostatectomy
Dr. Yang
The PEAK-RP study is a randomized controlled trial testing the implementation strategy of a mind-body-exercise intervention that prepares prostate cancer patients and their caregivers for radical prostatectomy…
Shaping up on physical activity and cancer: Improving estimates of cancer risk using accelerometry and contemporary methods in the UK Biobank
Dr. Yang
There are inherent limitations of self-report data associated with measurement error. This project uses novel and innovative methods to estimate the attenuation of the association between self-reported physical activity and cancer risk associated with measurement error…
The Alberta Moving Beyond Breast Cancer (AMBER) Study
Dr. Friedenreich and Dr. Yang
The overall aim of this research is to study how physical activity and health-related fitness (e.g. physical fitness and body composition) are associated with survival after breast cancer. The cohort study has enrolled 1528 newly diagnosed breast cancer survivors in Alberta since 2012 and is following up these participants with regular assessments …