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Getting fitter and better nourished before an operation reduces complications and speeds recovery. It is cheap, but only a few hospitals do it.
Multimodal prehabilitation combining aerobic and resistance exercise, protein supplementation, anaemia correction and smoking cessation has reduced complications in randomised trials and meta-analyses of large abdominal cancer operations. Adoption is patchy because it requires service redesign rather than a product, and because delaying surgery by weeks feels counterintuitive.
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Shares Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus, Structured exercise prescribed like a drug in all curative-intent cancer care, Cachexia, toxicity and the limits of the patient, Diet, exercise and lifestyle roadmap: causes established → interventions that disappointed → exercise proven as treatment.
Shares Prehabilitation (the pre-treatment window), What a prehabilitation programme actually contains, and how long it needs, What the randomised trials of prehabilitation found, operation by operation, Diet, exercise and lifestyle roadmap: causes established → interventions that disappointed → exercise proven as treatment.
Shares Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus, Cachexia, toxicity and the limits of the patient, Geriatric assessment, Exercise & lifestyle oncology.
Shares Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus, Structured exercise prescribed like a drug in all curative-intent cancer care, Cachexia, toxicity and the limits of the patient, Exercise & lifestyle oncology.
Shares Structured exercise prescribed like a drug in all curative-intent cancer care, Cachexia, toxicity and the limits of the patient, Diet, exercise and lifestyle roadmap: causes established → interventions that disappointed → exercise proven as treatment, Exercise & lifestyle oncology.