Hi there! For the coming weeks, our blog will be dedicated to our Young SIOP Award winners!
Please meet Martin Fridh, YI from Denmark, in his own words.
My research is centered around physical rehabilitation of children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors. I finished my PhD in 2020, entitled: Supervised in-hospital physical activity that includes healthy classmates as ambassadors in children and adolescents with cancer — A RESPECT thesis. The study was a nationwide nonrandomized controlled multimodal intervention study including 178 children with cancer included from diagnosis. The children in the intervention group participated in supervised in-hospital physical activity and received visits from healthy classmates.
The study showed that children with cancer require early initiated physical rehabilitation, as their cardiorespiratory fitness, physical functioning, muscle strength are markedly impaired with 14 days after diagnosis. Moreover, their fitness and physical functioning deteriorate further if they do not receive any physical rehabilitation. These results are the basis for the research field of Pediatric Exercise Oncology in Denmark, where I am establishing a research group anchored in the Childhood Oncology Network Targeting Research, Organization & Life expectancy (CONTROL) supported by Danish Cancer Society (R-257-A14720).
The group consists of four PhD students, working on physical rehabilitation, amelioration of late effects, and health-related behavior in children and adolescents with cancer.
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