Emily Dore-Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
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And again, to have really good consultant buy-in is
I think culturally as well, the sort of population here, the family members and sometimes having interpreters again to kind of convey the message and the importance is really key.
to kind of get them on board from the beginning.
Because as you said, for some people, that's never been ever a part of their life for the most part.
So that behaviour change as quickly, as early as possible is really kind of key in that respect.
Yeah, for sure.
And I think, you know, it does seem like sort of basic generic advice you're given, but when you, again, kind of for patients, you look at the emerging sort of scientific literature that supports this and actually, as you know, Andy and Duncan have both said, the more muscle mass you have, the thoughts around sort of your chemo being metabolized better and you coping with side effects for staying, you know, physically active.
I think historically, and this is again,
changing patients' kind of views and sort of attitudes towards resting while going through treatment.
We're very much sort of moved and moving away from that.
But yeah, you're right.
There's lots of evidence to support actually staying fitter sort of pre and during treatment means you don't have that huge sort of downturn after you've come through your operation or at the end of your treatment.
Actually, you're sort of still at a
a higher functioning baseline had you not have put in this work and sort of have that support given to you so yeah it's very much as i said sort of supported in the in the scientific and evidence which is why it's now become sort of part within the national the um cancer plan that was my next question actually what you know what is the evidence like how how do we know that this is
Sure.
And, and, you know, it is, it's a big thing to comprehend when you're going through tests and there's a sort of
not a confirmed cancer diagnosis but that word has been mentioned and already that kind of anxiety and worry and uncertainty is in patients minds and then when they do receive that diagnosis for some patients it is a lot to comprehend and I think partly normalizing that that it everything seems to me very quickly which obviously is in the patient's best interests and
you know, it does, they have a lot of appointments and we try as best we can to kind of link in with those appointments and reduce that burden on the patient through seeing different professionals, you know, being that we do sort of cover four out of the five hospitals at
at Barts we really try to kind of from an equity point of view and reach many patients as possible but yeah it is it's kind of listening to them normalizing that you know patients that we've had gone through our service we do have a couple of sort of patient advocates that are great to kind of input on our service at times but yeah it's a huge it is it's a big undertaking but that I think with the right support is sort of lessened and yeah can can help patients in that way
I think there's a few sort of directions.
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