Team studies 12-week recovery programme

Dr Juliette Hussey has sought to assess the effect of a diet and exercise rehabilitation plan aimed at helping patients recovering from surgery for cancer of the oesophagus to return to pre-cancer levels of activity and performance. Working with Prof John Reynolds’ surgery team at St James’s Hospital, TCD researchers have studied measures of physical performance (walking and ability to climb stairs) at cancer diagnosis and throughout treatment, to gain a greater understanding of the extent to which physical performance is negatively affected by oesophageal cancer treatment. In addition, changes in body composition (body fat and muscle content), food intake…