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Exercise as cancer care: Adelaide University's new My Cancer Exercise Program (My CEP) offers tailored, supervised exercise sessions for cancer patients for as little as $5 a class. Research backs the approach — prescribed exercise can cut cancer recurrence risk by up to 35% and cancer mortality by up to 44%. The program also doubles as a training ground for clinical exercise physiology students.
Exercise as cancer care: Adelaide University's $5 program is changing the game
Rest has long been the default advice for cancer patients, but science says otherwise. Adelaide University's My Cancer Exercise Program (My CEP) is putting that research into action, offering individually tailored exercise sessions for cancer patients at just $5 per class. Led by supervised final-year Clinical Exercise Physiology students, the small-group classes (up to five participants) are designed to meet each person's unique needs — whether they're mid-treatment or in recovery.
The program is already making a real difference. Jessie Marshall, a mum living with metastatic breast cancer that has spread to her bones, credits My CEP with improving both her strength and mental wellbeing — doing more exercise than ever before despite an incurable diagnosis.
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Why it matters: Cancer treatment side effects — fatigue, muscle wasting, neuropathy, bone loss — can be debilitating. My CEP offers an evidence-based, affordable, and accessible way to address these challenges, while also training the next generation of exercise physiologists in complex clinical care.
