With March being National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, the timing of these findings is especially relevant for so many people around the country and the world who have been treated for colon cancer in the past,” said Brown, who serves as director of the Colorectal Cancer Awareness Program. Serves as Cancer Metabolism Program at Pennington Biomedicals.
Brown’s father died of metastatic colorectal cancer at age 48, which has strengthened his lifelong commitment to conducting innovative research to help colorectal cancer survivors live longer and healthier lives.
Between June 2010 and November 2015, 1,696 patients from 654 academic and community oncology centers in the United States and Canada were enrolled in a prospective nested cohort study. Physical activity was calculated based on self-reporting during and after chemotherapy.