LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A feasibility study of oncology rehabilitation in the Australian community

Abstract

Dear Editor, We carefully read the interesting report of Australian researchers (Tan et al.)1 on the feasibility of implementing an innovative, multidisciplinary, multi-site exer- cise-based rehabilitation program for cancer patients in the community.2 The acronym (POWER) of this multidisciplinary Program for Oncology Wellness and Exercise Rehabilitation implies a significant emphatic value. The authors carried out this feasibility study based on a Bowen’ Framework system with a highly shareable, strict scientific method in a holistic approach to people surviving cancer.3 Any interventional program is “intended to ultimately influence or change peo- ple’s social, environmental, and organizational conditions as well as their choices, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors”.3