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Living well during and after treatment

For: Patients, caregivers, and survivors

The supportive-care tools with real evidence: exercise, heart protection, hair preservation, fitness assessment for older adults, and the questions to ask.

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    Front
    Supportive Care & Survivorship

    Supportive care and survivorship covers everything that keeps a patient well enough to receive treatment, and well afterwards.

    Why here The front that gets the least attention and changes daily life the most.

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    TechnologyEstablished
    Exercise & lifestyle oncology

    Structured exercise during and after treatment, which the CHALLENGE trial showed improves survival in colon cancer.

    Why here Structured exercise improved survival in a randomised trial.

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    Idea
    Structured exercise prescribed like a drug in all curative-intent cancer care

    The CHALLENGE trial showed a supervised exercise programme improves survival in colon cancer. Extend it to breast, prostate, and lung cancer with the same rigour.

    Why here Why exercise should be prescribed like a drug.

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    TechnologyEstablished
    Cardio-oncology

    Protecting the heart from cancer treatments, which is increasingly important as patients live longer.

    Why here Protecting the heart from anthracyclines, HER2 drugs, and immunotherapy.

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    TechnologyEstablished
    Scalp cooling

    A cold cap worn during chemotherapy that reduces hair loss by narrowing blood vessels in the scalp.

    Why here Keeping hair through taxane chemotherapy.

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    TechnologyEstablished
    Geriatric assessment

    Geriatric assessment is a structured check of an older patient's fitness, memory, and support that predicts treatment tolerance better than age.

    Why here For older patients: fewer severe side effects without losing effect.

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    Term
    Immune-related adverse events (irAEs)

    Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) are the autoimmune side effects of checkpoint inhibitors: colitis, thyroid problems, rash, hepatitis, pneumonitis.

    Why here Immunotherapy side effects to recognise early.

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    Term
    Interstitial lung disease (ILD) / pneumonitis

    Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is lung inflammation, a serious side effect of some ADCs (especially Enhertu) and immunotherapy.

    Why here The lung side effect of some ADCs, and why prompt reporting matters.

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    TechnologyEstablished
    MRD / molecular residual disease testing

    An ultra-sensitive blood test after surgery that detects leftover cancer months before a scan would.

    Why here Blood tests during follow-up and what they can and cannot yet tell you.

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    Company
    Cancer Commons

    Nonprofit that helps advanced-cancer patients navigate precision-oncology options and trials, free of charge.

    Why here Free navigation help when options run thin.

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