Moving Through Cancer: An Exercise and Strength-Training Program for the Fight of Your Life - Empowers Patients and Caregivers in 5 Steps Hardcover – October 26, 2021

This book will be useful to anyone with cancer who needs proof (or a reminder) that your journey through cancer recovery begins - literally - with a single step, which might very well be the hardest. The science interestingly shows that starting an exercise routine, rather than increasing the intensity of an already existing one, has the most profound benefits. So get moving! This book has a great set of guidelines for workouts.As someone who has never had cancer, I found the best parts to be the success stories of athletes who trained during treatment, and used exercise as a way to stay mentally more positive, and attached to their identity. The story of Sindy Hooper brought tears to my eye. Maybe the website (movingthroughcancer.com) should have a follow-up section where they post more success stories. This part of the book is so inspirational!

Only needed certain parts of the book, but found it easy to read and understand. Book is essentially laid out so you can go straight to whatever chapter. Biggest thing is I started some resistance training using the basics in this book, a minor miracle.

This book doesn’t get bogged down in the science. It is very practical and is good for patients and care givers. Highly recommend!

I loved reading this book! As an exercise oncology instructor, this was a great read! Not only did it contain lots of information for me, it contained lots on information to pass onto my patients. Dr Schmitz did a great job talking about her own wife's experiences with cancer and experiences of many other patients. This book provides great motivation and a clear path if anyone is looking to get started exercises!

This is a relatively decent book, but it has one glaring omission. While it focuses heavily on the “original three” cancer treatments (chemo, radiation, and surgery), there is literally no mention of immunotherapy, which, of course, has taken the cancer world “by storm” in the last five years.Unlike the first three treatments, which “assault” the body in one way or another, immunotherapy focuses on strengthening the body by building up the immune system.As such, an exercise program for people going through immunotherapy would, by definition, need to be somewhat different than it would for people going through chemo, radiation, or surgery.In this book, each of these “original three” has its own separate detailed chapter. Not only does immunotherapy not have its own chapter, it is not even mentioned in the book, except in one very short (four-line) paragraph at the top of page 103, where a short definition of immunotherapy is given.If the publication date didn’t say 2021, I would assume that the book was written five or more years ago, before immunotherapy had become so “front and center” in cancer treatment. It is a real “head scratcher” as to why the author, writing in 2021, chose to simply ignore this huge new pillar of cancer treatment.One other omission (albeit a less important one) is that, for some reason, the author focused virtually all of her detailed case studies on women with cancer, and conducted the vast majority of her interviews with women cancer professionals.As a result, the implicit message throughout the book seems to be: Not many men get cancer, and most of the real experts on cancer are women.I think a more appropriate title for this book would be: “Exercise Recommendations for Women Going Through Chemotherapy, Radiation, or Surgery.”Anyway, as a 70-year-old man currently going through two years of immunotherapy, I felt somewhat “left out” while reading this book.Having been a writer and researcher for the last 45 years, however, I have done enough of my own “deep” research into the legitimate medical journal literature to find out what kinds of exercise will work for me, and, so far, it seems to be working out.

One year into treatment for Breast Cancer and I can tell you this book sums up what to expect and gives practical advice about living the realities of all the side effects. I found it inspirational and informative without being technical or preachy. I will be giving a copy of this book to anyone I know who is/will be dealing with a cancer diagnosis.