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Other health care professionals who met the patients at a later stage commented that patients appeared better informed than those who had not attended a seminar. Conclusion The new patient education seminar had 100% patient satisfaction for those who attended based on questionnaires. Ongoing work includes collection of quantitative data to evaluate the potential reduction in anxiety levels. Jenkins, V., Fallowfield, L. and Saul, J. (2001). Information needs of patients with cancer: results from a large study in UK cancer centres. British Journal of Cancer, 84 (1), pp. 48 – 51. Mills, M. and Sullivan, K. (1999). The importance of information giving for patients newly diagnosed with cancer: a review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing,8(6), pp. 6 31–642. EP-2393 The influence of raising patient awareness of physical activity during radiation treatment H. Webster 1 , R. Carmi 1 , R. Bar-Deroma 1 , G. Bar-Sela 1 1 Rambam Health Care Campus - Faculty of Medicine, Oncology, Haifa, Israel Purpose or Objective Many researches have shown the connection between physical activity and cancer disease, but still, this has not been sufficiently highlighted, emphasized or applied in the oncology departments. Our project entitled "the importance of movement during the disease" was started in the radiotherapy unit to promote information on the different physical activities relevant to the different stages of the disease. The aim of this work was to test whether raising the patient awareness will influence performing physical activities during and/or after Three daily (6 hrs) courses were held at Rambam Hospital HCC during 2017. These were attended by 80 patients, 72 (90%) women with breast cancer and 8(10%), men with prostate cancer, that were at different stages of their radiation treatment. Average age was 54 years. In each day four different lectures dealing with different types of physical activities such as Pilates, Yoga, Thai Chi, Feldenkrais and dancing were given. The lectures were given by experts in their field. The attendees were requested to answer two questionnaires: at the beginning of the day and at its end. The topic of the first one was "How they think physical exercise influences the healing process" and the topic of the second one was "Did the course changed or influenced how you think about and/or influenced you to perform physical activity?". Questions were grade 1 (low influence) to 4 (high influence). Not all participants stayed to the end of the course as a result not all responded to the second questionnaire. Two months after each course, a cohort of 38 attendees were contacted and asked whether the course influenced them to do physical activity in their daily routine. Results Answers to the first questionnaire were as follows: 42% from the attendees stated they do physical exercise occasionally, 34% performed physical exercise with high to very high frequency and 65% believed that physically activity will help them during the treatment of the disease, but despite this belief, 93% stopped physical activity from the moment they knew they were sick. Regarding the answers to the end of day questionnaire, 72% of the 64 attendees that answered said that during the course, their knowledge on the importance of physical activity was raised and that they would be more inclined to do physical activity at home. From the phone calls performed two months after the course, it was found that 80% from the attendees did continue to radiation treatment. Material and Methods

do physical activity at home and 39% signed up for some kind of group activities involving physical exercise. Conclusion The results of the project show that holding courses aiming to emphasize the importance of physical activity during the cancer treatment, may raise patient awareness receiving radiation therapy. We believe in the need to encourage physical activity in patients that have cancer. This is an on-going project that has to be further developed for the wellbeing of the patients. EP-2394 Patient-seminar before radiation of prostate cancer O. Fremsæter 1 , E.J. Stavang 1 1 Ålesund Hospital, Kreftavdelinga, Ålesund, Norway Purpose or Objective Provide essential information for prostate cancer patients who are to undergo curative radiotherapy, and thereby improve their feeling of “good global health” and degree of “good coping skills”. “Good global health” is defined as the share answering excellent, very good or good on the following question: “Mostly, how will you define your health status”? “Good coping skills” is defined as the share answering excellent, very good or good on the following question: “How do you consider your ability of self-care”? Material and Methods A total of 90 patients and 36 relatives partitioned into 8 single one-day seminars, have participated. Both patients receiving radical radiotherapy against their prostate glands, and patients given post-operative radiation treatment after undergoing radical prostatectomy, were included. All participants were served a seven hour interdisciplinary program including lectures with themes listed in image 1. All participants answered a questionnaire concerning the seminar program at the end of the course day. All patients answered a Patient Activation Measure -questionnaire (PAM) before participating in this seminar, and respectively 4 and 12 months post seminar.

Results At this time we possess data including 12 months follow up for seminar nr.1-3 (table 1). Only data from seminar 1-3 is presented. Patients receiving post-operative