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Anne May

prof. dr.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0643-3790
    1991 …2026

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    Biography

    Anne May is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology of Cancer Survivorship and currently serves as Director of Research at the Julius Center at UMC Utrecht. In addition, she is Group Leader of the Lifestyle and Survivorship Care research group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. 
     
    She obtained a Master's degree in Human Movement Sciences (with distinction) from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2001 and an MSc in Epidemiology from the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, in 2006.

    From June 2001 to December 2002, Anne May worked as a Nutrition Scientist at Numico Research BV in Wageningen.

    Since 2003, Anne May has been involved in research on lifestyle, body composition, nutrition, and cancer. Between 2003 and 2007, she conducted her PhD research at the Julius Center, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht), investigating the effects of physical exercise and cognitive behavioural therapy in cancer patients. After completing her PhD, she continued her academic career at the Julius Center.

    Her research focuses on optimal survivorship care for patients living with cancer with an emphasis on lifestyle interventions – from translational and clinical research to patient care. She is especially interested in effects of exercise in cancer patients, in the mediators of the effect and also in methodological aspects related to exercise-oncology research. For the latter she received a VENI grant from ZonMw (i.e., personal grant for outstanding researchers) entitled 'Novel research design and methodology for evaluating effects of physical exercise in patients with cancer’. She is the PI of several ongoing (inter)national multi-center exercise-oncology RCTs (PREFERABLE (H2020-funded), PREFERABLE-II (Horizon Europe funded), PACT, PERFECT, UMBRELLA-FIT and PAM). She is also part of the research team of several cancer patient cohorts: PLCRC (colorectal cancer), UMBRELLA (breast cancer) and UNICIT (patients receiving immunotherapy), and is responsible for patient-reported outcomes and assessment of muscle mass. Last, she is involved in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study and was the scientific coordinator of an EC-funded research project investigating the relationship between physical activity, nutrition, alcohol, smoking, eating out of home and obesity (EPIC-PANACEA).

    Fellowship & awards

    • Coordinator of the HORIZON EUROPE funded international PREFERABLE-II Project: Personalised Exercise-Oncology for improvement of supportive care: a super umbrella trial to demonstrate (cost)effectiveness of live-remote exercise in cancer survivors
    • Coordinator of the H2020 funded international PREFERABLE Project (Exercise for Fatigue Eradication in Advanced Breast cancer to improve quality of life) - https://www.h2020preferable.eu/      
    • ZonMw VENI grant “Novel research design and methodology for evaluating effects of physical exercise in patients with cancer” (2014)
    • Selected for the female leadership programme “Steyn Parve” (UMC Utrecht)

    External positions

    Lid RvC en RvT - toezichthouden - Alexander Monro Ziekenhuis

    3 Apr 2024 → 31 Dec 3999

    Lid Raad Medische Wetenschappen (RMW) - KNAW - advies geven - KNAW

    1 Nov 2023 → 31 Dec 3999

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    • Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors: Consensus Statement from International Multidisciplinary Roundtable

      Campbell, K. L., Winters-Stone, K. M., Wiskemann, J., May, A. M., Schwartz, A. L., Courneya, K. S., Zucker, D. S., Matthews, C. E., Ligibel, J. A., Gerber, L. H., Morris, G. S., Patel, A. V., Hue, T. F., Perna, F. M. & Schmitz, K. H., Nov 2019, In: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 51, 11, p. 2375-2390 16 p.

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    • Exercise, Diet, and Weight Management During Cancer Treatment: ASCO Guideline

      Ligibel, J. A., Bohlke, K., May, A. M., Clinton, S. K., Demark-Wahnefried, W., Gilchrist, S. C., Irwin, M. L., Late, M., Mansfield, S., Marshall, T. F., Meyerhardt, J. A., Thomson, C. A., Wood, W. A. & Alfano, C. M., 1 Aug 2022, In: Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 40, 22, p. 2491-2507 17 p.

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    • International Pooled Analysis of Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Premenopausal Breast Cancer in Women From 19 Cohorts

      Timmins, I. R., Jones, M. E., O'Brien, K. M., Adami, H.-O., Aune, D., Baglietto, L., Bertrand, K. A., Brantley, K. D., Chen, Y., Clague DeHart, J., Clendenen, T. V., Dossus, L., Eliassen, A. H., Fletcher, O., Fournier, A., Håkansson, N., Hankinson, S. E., Houlston, R. S., Joshu, C. E. & Kirsh, V. A. & 29 others, Kitahara, C. M., Koh, W.-P., Linet, M. S., Park, H. L., Lynch, B. M., May, A. M., Mellemkjær, L., Milne, R. L., Palmer, J. R., Ricceri, F., Rohan, T. E., Ruddy, K. J., Sánchez, M.-J., Shu, X.-O., Smith-Byrne, K., Steindorf, K., Sund, M., Vachon, C. M., Vatten, L. J., Visvanathan, K., Weiderpass, E., Willett, W. C., Wolk, A., Yuan, J.-M., Zheng, W., Nichols, H. B., Sandler, D. P., Swerdlow, A. J. & Schoemaker, M. J., 10 Mar 2024, In: Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 42, 8, p. 927-939 13 p.

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    • Effects of physical exercise during adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer on long-term tested and perceived cognition: results of a pragmatic follow-up study

      Naaktgeboren, W. R., Koevoets, E. W., Stuiver, M. M., van Harten, W. H., Aaronson, N. K., van der Wall, E., Velthuis, M., Sonke, G., Schagen, S. B., Groen, W. G. & May, A. M., May 2024, In: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 205, 1, p. 75-86 12 p.

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    • Impact of colorectal cancer screening on survival after metachronous metastasis

      Hamers, P. A. H., Vink, G. R., Elferink, M. A. G., Moons, L. M. G., Punt, C. J. A., May, A. M. & Koopman, M., Jan 2024, In: European Journal of Cancer. 196, 113429.

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