Professor
School of Kinesiology (KIN)
His research centres on exercise and breast cancer. Dr. McKenzie has a ‘cancer gym’ near the BC Cancer Agency that has been very productive in multi-centre trials looking at the integration of exercise with this disease.
Contributions:
Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2014 Sep;46(9):1744-51. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000297. Effects of Exercise during Adjuvant Chemotherapy on Breast Cancer Outcomes. Courneya KS1, Segal RJ, McKenzie DC, Dong H, Gelmon K, Friedenreich CM, Yasui Y, Reid RD, Crawford JJ, Mackey JR.
Effects of exercise dose and type during breast cancer chemotherapy: multicenter randomized trial. Courneya KS, McKenzie DC, Mackey JR, Gelmon K, Friedenreich CM, Yasui Y, Reid RD, Cook D, Jespersen D, Proulx C, Dolan LB, Forbes CC, Wooding E, Trinh L, Segal RJ. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2013 Dec 4;105(23):1821-32. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djt297. Epub 2013 Oct 22.
Keywords:
Sports medicine; Kinesiology; Exercise and breast cancer.
don.mckenzie@ubc.ca
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