Energy Balance & Cancer

Our research aims to establish the roles of health behaviours (predominantly physical activity and diet) across the cancer continuum, from primary prevention of cancer to improving outcomes after a cancer diagnosis. The programme of research we conduct involves both large epidemiological surveys, randomised controlled trials and pilot/feasibility studies.听

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This group is led by Dr Abi Fisher (abigail.fisher@ucl.ac.uk)

Group Members听

Research staff (果冻影院):听

Joanna Land

Research staff (external):

Doctoral students:听

I am a PhD student with the Soc-B programme, and my project is looking at 鈥楾he role of social factors in physical activity during COVID-19 pandemic鈥�. My main supervisor is Dr Abi Fisher.

I am a first year PhD student supervised by Pippa Lally, Abi Fisher, Becca Beeken and Rana Conway. We are currently working on two research projects with ASCOT and APPROACH. Our first project is a qualitative interview study where we aim to explore the experiences relating to weight of cancer survivors affected by obesity. In this study we aim to interview participants from both ASCOT and APPROACH to compare the experiences of participants with a broad range of time since their initial cancer diagnosis. The second study is a quantitative analysis using the baseline ASCOT data to explore the demographics, clinical factors, and health behaviours associated with BMI in people living with and beyond breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer.听

Project title: Exercise during haematological cancer treatment- exploring the feasibility of embedding exercise within a clinical pathway in multiple myeloma.
I am supervised by Prof Kwee Yong (果冻影院 Cancer Institute), Dr Abi Fisher and Dr Gita Ramdharry (果冻影院 Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases). My PhD is funded by a Health Education England (HEE)/National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Integrated Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship.

Caroline Buck
I am working at Department of Behaviour Science and Health, supervised by Dr Abi Fisher, as part of a doctoral programme at Liverpool John Moores University. I have a background in qualitative research, and am currently involved in the ASCOT study. I have just completed a qualitative project on the impact of the pandemic on the health behaviours of people living with and beyond breast, colorectal and prostate cancer. I am also working on the APPROACH trial, delivering an intervention that examines whether an app encouraging more physical activity improves the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of people living with cancer. Next year I plan to conduct a mixed methods study on the impact of perimenopause/menopause on the health behaviours of women.

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