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  • Chemotherapy often leads to side effects that can negatively affect treatment outcomes, while exercise during treatment has shown benefits for physical functioning and mental health, but its impact on clinical outcomes like chemotherapy dose intensity is uncertain.
  • The ENICTO Consortium, funded by the National Cancer Institute, aims to fill this knowledge gap by exploring how exercise and nutrition may improve chemotherapy-related outcomes and detailing distinct research projects within their framework.
  • The findings from ENICTO could change oncology care practices, making exercise and nutrition support a standard part of cancer treatment alongside chemotherapy to enhance overall effectiveness and patient outcomes.

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Chemotherapy treatment-related side effects are common and increase the risk of suboptimal outcomes. Exercise interventions during cancer treatment improve self-reported physical functioning, fatigue, anxiety, and depression, but it is unclear whether these interventions improve important clinical outcomes, such as chemotherapy relative dose intensity. The National Cancer Institute funded the Exercise and Nutrition to Improve Cancer Treatment-Related Outcomes (ENICTO) Consortium to address this knowledge gap. This article describes the mechanisms hypothesized to underpin intervention effects on clinically relevant treatment outcomes, briefly outlines each project's distinct research aims, summarizes the scope and organizational structure of ENICTO, and provides an overview of the integrated common data elements used to pursue research questions collectively. In addition, the article includes a description of consortium-wide activities and broader research community opportunities for collaborative research. Findings from the ENICTO Consortium have the potential to accelerate a paradigm shift in oncology care such that patients with cancer could receive exercise and nutrition programming as the standard of care in tandem with chemotherapy to improve relative dose intensity for a curative outcome.

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