The UNIL-EPFL Centre sport et santé (CSS), the CHUV and the Zoé4life association are teaming up. They launched a programme for the benefit of children with cancer. When hospitalised at the CHUV, sick children have the opportunity to follow sports training on site. But once they return home, they often do not pursue any sporting activity or participate in physical education classes like other children. Yet the benefits of physical exercise appear to have been proven for both physical (coordination, endurance, balance) and neuropsychological (concentration, managing emotions) abilities. This is all the more important for these children who risk long-term after-effects related to their disease or to the heavy treatments administered. This is why the UNIL-EPFL sports and health centre (CSS) and the CHUV Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Unit decided to set up a programme for children from 6 to 16 years with cancer.
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