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As part of the UMass Center for Research on Families (CRF) Tay Gavin Lecture Series and in collaboration with the UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS), exercise scientist Lee Jones of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will present “Exercise Therapy for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer” on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. in the Conference Center of the Life Sciences Lab on the UMass Amherst campus. The lecture will also be available by Zoom.

In this lecture, Jones will discuss the existing considerable clinical and public interest in whether engaging in exercise, either among those individuals at elevated risk of cancer or those recently diagnosed with cancer, can influence disease development and progression. Jones will share the current evidence base as well as ongoing studies linking exercise to cancer risk as well as the impact of exercise in those diagnosed with cancer.

Jones completed his Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellowship in exercise oncology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and in 2014 joined the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is a member and attending physiologist in the Department of Medicine and director of the Exercise-Oncology Program, which focuses on a translational approach to the investigation of structured exercise therapy on cancer pathogenesis. It has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society and U.S. Department of Defense.

Jones has published numerous scientific articles and has served on several working groups at the American Society of Clinical Oncology and National Comprehensive Cancer Network. 

To register for the Feb. 13 lecture, visit the lecture webpage. For more information, email [email protected] or contact Ellanjé Martin, CRF communications and events manager, at 413-301-3948 or  [email protected].