Associated with UCSF since 2008 | +45 35 45 73 88 |
christina.ingeborg.andersen@regionh.dk
Background withing nursing and health care. Methodical competences include quantitative and qualitative research as well as qualitative reviews. Focus areas are cancer treatment and care, high-intensity workouts during chemotherapy, physical activity, symptom and side effect handling, and physical, social and mental health. Aside from this, I am the daily leader of the specialized exercise programme for cancer patients in chemotherapy, Body & Cancer, which I helped start back in 2001. Today we have a Body & Cancer cohort of several thousand participants. Business partners primarily include national researchers that work with clinical intervention research, the nation-wide networking group at Body & Cancer, cancer departments at the Capital region and patient associations.
Selected publications
- Gyldenvang HH, Piil K, Dahl TH, Paulsen TG, von Blixen Finecke CEC, Mathiesen UB, Møller T, Andersen C. Changing an exercise behaviour for physically inactive patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy - the critical role of nurse support: an implementation study. Eur J Oncol Nurs 2025;74:102807. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2025.102807. PMID: 39874711.
- Andersen C, Adamsen L, Damhus CS, Piil K, Missel M, Jarden M, Larsen A, Larsen HB, Møller T. Qualitative exploration of the perceptions of exercise in patients with cancer initiated during chemotherapy: a meta-synthesis. BMJ Open 2023;13(12):e074266. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074266. PMID:
38086582
- Dybeck MM, Adamsen L, Sørensen V, Lillelund C, Møller T, Andersen C. Can supervised group-based multimodal exercise improve health-related quality of life in women with ovarian cancer undergoing chemotherapy? Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 2022;31(4):e13607. doi: 10.1111/ecc.13607. PMID: 35555831
- Møller T, Andersen C, Lillelund C, Bloomquist K, Christensen KB, Ejlertsen B, Tuxen M, Oturai P, Breitenstein U, Kolind C, Travis P, Bjerg T, Rørth M, Adamsen L. Physical deterioration and adaptive recovery in physically inactive breast cancer patients during adjuvant chemotherapy: a randomised controlled trial. Sci Rep 2020;10(1):9710. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66513-9. PMID: 32546796
- Adamsen L, Andersen C, Lillelund C, Bloomquist K, Møller T. Rethinking exercise identity: a qualitative study of physically inactive cancer patients' transforming process while undergoing chemotherapy. BMJ Open 2017;7(8):1-11. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016689. PMID:
28838897
- Andersen C, Rørth M, Ejlertsen B, Adamsen L. Exercise despite pain: breast cancer patient experiences of muscle and joint pain during adjuvant chemotherapy and concurrent participation in an exercise intervention. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 2014;23(5):653-67. doi: 10.1111/ecc.12192. PMID: 24750506
- Andersen C, Rørth M, Ejlertsen B, Stage M, Møller T, Midtgaard J, Quist M, Bloomquist K, Adamsen L. The effects of a six-week supervised multimodal exercise intervention during chemotherapy on cancer-related fatigue. Eur J Oncol Nurs 2013;17(3):331-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2012.09.003. PMID:
23084254
- Andersen C. Brachytherapy: exploring the role of nurses. EONS Newsletter 2010 Summer:26-7. Adamsen L, Quist M, Andersen C, Møller T, Herrstedt J, Kronborg D, Baadsgaard MT, Vistisen K, Midtgaard J, Christiansen B, Stage M, Kronborg MT, Rørth M. Effect of a multimodal high intensity exercise intervention in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2009 Oct 13;339:b3410. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3410. PMID: 19826172
- Andersen C, Adamsen L, Moeller T, Midtgaard J, Quist M, Tveteraas A, Rorth M. The effect of a multidimensional exercise programme on symptoms and side-effects in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: the use of semi-structured diaries. Eur J Oncol Nurs 2006;10(4):247-62. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2005.12.007. PMID: 16476570
- Andersen C, Adamsen L. Continuous video-recording: a new clinical research tool for studying the nursing care of cancer patients. J Adv Nurs 2001;35(2):257-67. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01842.x. PMID: 11442704