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Helping Cancer Patients Their Way to Healthier Lives

Gracias al ejercicio físico, ayudamos a los enfermos de cáncer a vivir mejor y durante más tiempo

Once known as a hidden gem, ˾’s student and staff-led Cancer Rehabilitation Institute now has a long waiting list for patients

“If it weren’t for this place, I’d be dead,” said a man wearing a baseball cap and a black T-shirt.

He’s sitting in a chair at the front of the exercise room, his blood pressure being taken by a student. “I would just sit at home, depressed.”  

Another woman wearing gray leggings and a long sleeve T-shirt arrived, visibly upset. But within 20 minutes, she was working out on an exercise bike, laughing with two students.

This is a normal Friday morning at the Ben Nighthorse Campbell Center, the one-story brick building home to the ˾ Cancer Rehabilitation Institute (˾CRI). The sound of interns and practicum students encouraging their patients could easily be mistaken for the upbeat chatter of friends as they get to work on that day’s exercises. Their treatment is based on extensive medical training and best practices. Their goals are both lofty and weightyhelp cancer patients live better, longer lives.   

However, watching the smiles widen on the faces of patients, students and staff, it’s clear that the work done here is powerful in ways not fully explained by science, at least not yet.  

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