Exercise as a cancer treatment: New evidence from preclinical and early phase clinical studies

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H9, Canada. Electronic address: kerry.courneya@ualberta.ca.

Editorial

Kerry S Courneya. J Sport Health Sci. 2025.

. 2025 Jun 11:14:101066.

doi: 10.1016/j.jshs.2025.101066. Online ahead of print.

¹ Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H9, Canada. Electronic address: kerry.courneya@ualberta.ca.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests The author declares that he has no competing interests.

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