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Get strong to fight childhood cancer – An exercise intervention for children and adolescents undergoing anti-cancer treatment

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28 June 2023

FORTEe in CCLG’s contact magazine!

The award-winning Contact magazine is a free quarterly magazine for families of children and young people with cancer by the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG).

Dr. Peter Wright, Hayley Marriot and Dr. Alba Solera-Sanchez, researchers and FORTEe consortium partners at the Oxfoord Brookes University, explain the benefits of staying physically active during and after treatment of children and young people with cancer.

Download your issue of Contact magazine – Keeping active here! Check out the article about FORTEe on pages 8 and 9! | Issue 99 – Summer 2023

Contact-magazine_FORTEe on page_8-9!

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30 May 2023

FORTEe App: Get Strong

It’s European week against cancer! This May 30th is all about patients & survivors. The perfect opportunity to introduce you to the FORTEe App, a playful educational game app for childhood cancer patients.

You can download the FORTEe Get Strong app from both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store!

Developed by our partners NUROGAMES and UMCMainz.

Special thanks go to Network ActivOncoKids and FORTEe partner UKESSEN for the exercise videos!

24 March 2023

5th FORTEe General Assembly Meeting

The FORTEe GA meeting was a great success, with over 40 delegates discussing scientific progress and reaching important decisions👏🏻✨

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