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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/77096, first published .
An App-Based Behavioral Support Intervention Promoting Physical Activity (APPROACH) in Patients Diagnosed With Breast, Prostate, or Colorectal Cancer: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

An App-Based Behavioral Support Intervention Promoting Physical Activity (APPROACH) in Patients Diagnosed With Breast, Prostate, or Colorectal Cancer: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

An App-Based Behavioral Support Intervention Promoting Physical Activity (APPROACH) in Patients Diagnosed With Breast, Prostate, or Colorectal Cancer: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Fiona Kennedy   1 , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Sue L Smith   2 , BA, MSc ;   Rebecca J Beeken   1 , BA, MSc, PhD ;   Caroline Buck   2 , BA, MSc, DHealthPsych ;   Leanne Shearsmith   1 , BSc ;   Hannah Truscott   1 , BSc, MSc ;   Nicholas Counsell   3 , MSc ;   Chloe Thomas   4 , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Anna Roberts   2 , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Diana M Greenfield   5 , BSc, PhD ;   Henry WW Potts   6 , BA, MSc, PhD ;   Nicholas Latimer   4 , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Ed Lowther   7 , MA ;   Lee Smith   8 , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Rosie Stevens   1 , BSc ;   Amy Creaser   1 , BSc, PhD ;   Jacqui Gath   9 , MBCS, CITP, CEng ;   Lynda Wyld   10 , BMedSci, MBChB, PhD, FRCS(Gen Surg), FEBS ;   Abigail Fisher   2 * , BSc, PhD ;   Phillippa Lally   11 * , BSc, MSc, PhD

1 Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

2 Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

3 Cancer Research UK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre, Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

4 Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

5 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom

6 Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom

7 UCL Advanced Research Computing Centre, University College London, London, United Kingdom

8 The Centre for Health, Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

9 Independent Cancer Patients' Voice (ICPV), London, United Kingdom

10 Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

11 University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Abigail Fisher, BSc, PhD
  • Department of Behavioural Science and Health
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