EON Network: March 2025 Newsletter |
The EON Network was established to facilitate communication between exercise oncology and oncology nutrition researchers and clinicians to achieve our joint goal of improving cancer treatment outcomes.
The EON Network monthly newsletter includes upcoming webinars, updates on exercise oncology and oncology nutrition related events, publications that may be of interest, and resources. This information is also available on the EON Network webpage. Past newsletters are archived.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025, 2-3 PM ET |
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Colleen Spees, PhD, MEd, RDN, LD, FAND, FAHA
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Food is Medicine in Oncology | Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD and Colleen Spees, PhD, MEd, RDN, LD, FAND, FAHA
This webinar will focus on the growing interest in integrating food and nutrition into health care, discussing the design of “food is medicine” interventions. It will discuss the preliminary findings and lessons learned from a medically tailored meals plus nutrition counseling intervention in improving the outcomes for vulnerable patients with lung cancer, along with opportunities for integrating food and nutrition into oncology care.
The CPE activity application for this EON webinar is pending CDR review and approval for 1 CPEU for Registered Dietitians/Registered Dietitian Nutritionists.
Dr. Zhang is a nutritional epidemiologist and the Neely Family Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. Her research centers on characterizing dietary intake patterns, trends, and disparities in the population, investigating the role of nutrition in cancer prevention and control, and translating evidence into programs, practices, and policies.
Dr. Spees is a Professor in Medical Dietetics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine with advanced training in exercise science, health promotion, and nutritional genomics. Her primary focus of research involves developing, implementing, and testing biobehavioral lifestyle interventions aimed at providing optimal nutrition for vulnerable cancer populations. In this capacity, she seeks to improve access to culturally appropriate, health-promoting, and functional foods by impacting food availability, food access, food quality, and food use.
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Spotlight: "The association of physical activity with survival in colon cancer versus a matched general population: Data from Cancer and Leukemia Group B 89803 and 80702 (Alliance)."
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Brown JC, Ma C, Shi Q, Saltz LB, Shields AF, Meyerhardt JA. The association of physical activity with survival in colon cancer versus a matched general population: Data from Cancer and Leukemia Group B 89803 and 80702 (Alliance). Cancer 2025;131(5):e35727. PMID: 39989023
Dr. Brown writes: "Individuals with colon cancer face higher rates of premature mortality than people in the general population with matched characteristics such as age and sex. To assess whether exercise might reduce this disparity, we analyzed data from two post-treatment trials in patients with stage 3 colon cancer, with a total of 2,875 patients who self-reported physical activity after cancer surgery and chemotherapy. We also examined data on a matched general population from the National Center for Health Statistics.
"The pooled analyses of the two trials showed that cancer survivors who were tumor-free by year three and regularly exercised achieved even better subsequent survival rates than those seen in the matched general population."
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Additional Publications of Interest
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Kato R, Miyamoto Y, Yukiharu H, Yuto M, Ouchi M, Ogawa K, Kosumi K, Eto K, Ida S, Iwatsuki M, Baba Y, Baba H. Pretreatment bioelectrical impedance analysis predicts chemotherapy efficacy and toxicity in metastatic colorectal cancer patients. Clin Nutr ESPEN 2025 Feb 22:S2405-4577(25)00078-6. PMID: 39993561
Mannino A, Lasry C, Kuypers J, Haines TP, Croagh D, Hanna L, Furness K. The effects of enteral tube feeding on nutrition, survival, and quality of life outcomes in advanced upper gastrointestinal cancers: a systematic literature review. Support Care Cancer 2025;33(3):223. PMID: 40009216
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| Call for Papers: JNCI Cancer Spectrum Special Collection |
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JNCI Cancer Spectrum is calling for papers investigating how exercise and nutrition impact cancer outcomes. Studies that involve clinical trials or prospective data collection over papers that are exploratory and analyze existing data for statistical associations without a well-considered biological mechanism are particularly encouraged. All manuscript types will be considered. Accepted papers will be published normally on advance access and moved into the open issue but also housed in a special collection on the journal website. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2025.
Please consider submitting your own work to the journal and sharing this announcement with your colleagues.
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Call for Papers: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Theme Issue |
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The Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (JAND) is pleased to announce a Theme Issue focused on nutrition and cancer. There is great scientific interest in this topic from the discovery of the role of various nutrients, dietary patterns and nutritional status on cancer prevention, control and survivorship to the development and testing of interventions, as well as the implementation and dissemination of nutrition oncology science to stakeholders. This Theme Issue is an opportunity for the research and clinical communities to draw together high-quality original research and reviews that advance our understanding of nutrition and cancer.
Submissions on nutrition and cancer should address populations of interest including (but not limited to):
• The study of populations at risk (low, moderate or high risk) for diet-associated cancers;
• Oncology patients (active treatment) as well as longer-term survivors;
• Patients experiencing or at risk for treatment-related sequalae;
• Caregivers of patients experiencing a cancer diagnosis; and
• Health care providers serving oncology patients.
Submission to this Theme Issue is by pre-approval only. Authors who are interested in submitting an article for this Theme Issue are required to submit an abstract (up to 300 words) to Dr. Wendy Demark-Wahnefried (demark@uab.edu) and Dr. Cynthia Thomson (cthomson@arizona.edu) by August 31, 2025. For all submissions that include research data, this abstract must include: Background, Objective, Design, Participants/Setting, Intervention (if applicable), Main Outcome Measures, Analyses Performed, anticipated or measured Results, and Conclusions, consistent with JAND’s Manuscript Preparation Guidelines. For narrative reviews, this abstract should be in continuous text. Only after abstract review by journal editors, will authors be notified of their invitation to submit a full manuscript to this Theme Issue.
Deadlines:
• Open for abstracts: NOW
• Abstract deadline: 31 August 2025
• Invitations to submit a full article sent out by 1 October 2025
• Full articles due: 15 December 2025
• Theme Issue published October 2026 (subject to change)
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