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29 October 2024

8th Steering Committee Meeting

Today we concluded the 8th FORTEe Steering Committee Meeting! 🙌 Exciting to see the first results coming in. Now, it’s full steam ahead as we dive into the data and prepare our results for upcoming publications – stay tuned!

08 October 2024

Mentor-mentee visit: Marco in Lyon

In early October 2024, Marco from the FORTEe Team in Milan, Italy, visited his mentor, Rodolf, in Lyon, France. This in-person meeting was a wonderful opportunity for the mentor-mentee duo to connect outside of their usual virtual sessions.

Now, let’s read about Marco’s reflection on the visit:

Meeting Rodolf and the team in Lyon was a fantastic experience!
The beauty of the FORTEe project, and in particular the Mentor-Mentee Program, is the opportunity to see how the work we do every day is carried out in other centers of excellence. It was also a wonderful moment to exchange ideas with many oncology researchers working with such passion. This experience has greatly helped me understand how to improve my work with my patients, while also giving me new ideas for the future. I thank Rodolf and his entire team for welcoming me with such warmth. À bientôt!

Thank you, Marco, for sharing your experience with us!
Together we #GetStrongToFightChildhoodCancer!

17 May 2024

FORTEe at SIOP Europe 2024

What an incredible week at #SIOPEurope2024! We had a fantastic time presenting FORTEe and loved the big interest in Paediatric Exercise Oncology. 🤸‍♀️🏃‍♂️🧗‍♀️⛹️‍♂️
Special thanks to our teams from Monza, Milano & Mainz for organizing everything and representing FORTEe.
It was also great to see two sessions on paediatric exercise oncology throughout the #SIOPEurope2024 program, sparking super interesting and valuable conversations at the FORTEe booth.

A great success all around! 🚀💪Thank you to everyone for coming by!
#GetStrongToFightChildhoodCancer

Our vision

Cancer is the first leading cause of death from non-communicable diseases in children in Europe. Patients’ morbidity increases during cancer treatment due to physical inactivity, cancer-related fatigue, and reduced health-related quality of life. Specifically, adapted exercise training achieved remarkable effects on successful cancer treatment in adults with cancer. A similar effect has not been clearly demonstrated in children and adolescents yet. This is where FORTEe steps in to promote exercise therapy, which aims to make young patients stronger for fighting childhood cancer.

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Objectives

  • Evaluate personalised and standardised exercise therapy for children and adolescents undergoing anti-cancer treatment
  • Prove the efficiency of an innovative exercise therapy tailored to the individual patient
  • Develop and use digital, innovative technologies such as augmented reality for more effective, age-appropriate, and personalised exercise training
  • Create new care pathways for patients using telehealth technologies
  • Increase the access to personalised exercise training to more patients, while maintaining physical distancing and isolation measures
  • Creation of new care pathways for patients using telehealth technologies to increase the access to personalised exercise training to more patients while maintaining physical distancing and isolation measures
  • Implement paediatric exercise therapy as an evidence-based standard in the EU