Active Against Cancer - Norway
The Active Against Cancer foundation was founded by Helle Aanesen and now deceased marathon star Grete Waitz in 2007, two years after Waitz herself was diagnosed with the disease. It aims to establish physical activity as part of cancer therapy.
Support from the Kavli Trust will help to strengthen this field of “exercise oncology” under the leadership of Dr Lee Jones. The project seeks to explore which tumours are influenced by a patient’s physical activity.
Dr Jones has already published much research into this form of treatment, and intends to keep working until enough is known to be able to give patients a prescription for specific exercises on the same basis as for medicines.
A research grant is also due to be established which will benefit Norwegian scientists and Norway’s research community.
More about this project
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Five years of collaboration for exercise oncology research
September 26, 2022
Five years of collaboration has provided new research and insight into exercise oncology, researching the effect of individually adapted physical activity as an integral part of cancer treatment.
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Grants to visiting researchers on exercise in cancer treatment
November 07, 2018
Cancer research scientists Tormod Skogstad Nilsen and Elisabeth Edvardsen have been visiting researchers in New York, financed by grants from the collaboration between AKTIV Against Cancer and Kavli Trust.
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Researching the effect of exercise therapy on cancer patients
October 10, 2018
Dr Elisabeth Edvardsen describes demanding, but thrilling days at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She is the centre’s second visiting researcher supported by a grant from AKTIV Against Cancer and the Kavli Trust.
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A semester with world class cancer researchers
May 08, 2018
Tormod S. Nilsen was the first of three Norwegian researchers to receive a grant from Aktiv mot kreft and the Kavli Trust, in support of his research on physical activity as a part of cancer treatment. He says his time as a cancer researcher in NYC was both eventful and productive.
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Exercising research in New York
March 29, 2017
Norwegian scientist Tormod Skogstad Nilsen has moved to New York to study the role of physical activity in cancer treatment, with backing from the Kavli Trust.
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New collaboration for research in exercise oncology
December 20, 2016
An approach to cancer treatment based on physical activity, originally backed by Norway’s deceased female marathon star Grete Waitz, could be on the verge of acceptance in America. A donation of NOK 5,4 million from the Kavli Trust is allowing the Active Against Cancer foundation to support research work which has so far given promising signals.