Embedding lifestyle interventions into cancer care: has telehealth narrowed the equity gap?.
- 2023
Lifestyle interventions targeting energy balance (ie, diet, exercise) are critical for optimizing the health and well-being of cancer survivors. Despite their benefits, access to these interventions is limited, especially in underserved populations, including older people, minority populations and those living in rural and remote areas. Telehealth has the potential to improve equity and increase access. This article outlines the advantages and challenges of using telehealth to support the integration of lifestyle interventions into cancer care. We describe 2 recent studies, GO-EXCAP and weSurvive, as examples of telehealth lifestyle intervention in underserved populations (older people and rural cancer survivors) and offer practical recommendations for future implementation. Innovative approaches to the use of telehealth-delivered lifestyle intervention during cancer survivorship offer great potential to reduce cancer burden. Copyright © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
English
1052-6773
10.1093/jncimonographs/lgac028 [doi] 7150904 [pii]
*Neoplasms
*Telemedicine
Aged
Diet
Exercise
Humans
Life Style
Neoplasms/di [Diagnosis]
Neoplasms/ep [Epidemiology]
Neoplasms/th [Therapy]
Rural Population--Automated
MedStar Health Research Institute
Journal Article