ReviewCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2024
Prehabilitation in Adults Undergoing Cancer Surgery: A Comprehensive Review on Rationale, Methodology, and Measures of Effectiveness.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of exercise based prehabilitation on postoperative pain in breast cancer patients: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2026Pooled it
- Unimodal to Multimodal Prehabilitation in Gastric Cancer Surgery: Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Multidisciplinary mHealth Rehabilitation for Patients With Abdominal Cancer Who Are Receiving Chemoradiotherapy: Randomized Phase II Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Prehabilitation in Head and Neck Surgery and Reconstruction.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- Preoperative physical exercise training for people scheduled for major abdominal surgery.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Impact of the Cachexia Index on survival and recurrence in patients undergoing surgery for gastric cancer.Surgery today · 2026Article
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- Perioperative fatigue after lung resection for pulmonary nodules and early-stage lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- Association between age and surgical resection for patients with stage II or III colorectal cancer: national study.BJS open · 2026Article
- The Impact of Malnutrition and Multimodal Prehabilitation on Quality of Life in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Following Resection and Microvascular Reconstruction: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Prehabilitation in cardiac surgery.JTCVS open · 2026Article
- Feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of digitally delivered multimodal prehabilitation for cancer patients: A mixed-methods systematic review.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- Physical exercise set as part of multimodal prehabilitation plan in patients with gynecological cancer undergoing abdominal cytoreductive surgery.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Review
- Effect of Branched-Chain Amino Acid-enriched nutritional supplement after exercise on skeletal muscle mass in patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancer.Progress in rehabilitation medicine · 2026Article
- Surgeon perspectives on prehabilitation in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction (AWR): a multi-institution survey.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025Article
- Surgical Oncology in 2025: Challenges, Innovations, and the Road Ahead for Young Surgical Oncologists.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Article
- Exercise and Nutrition Therapy in a Patient With Glottic Cancer Cachexia Undergoing Chemoradiotherapy: A Case Report.Cureus · 2025Article
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- Patient Education on Exercise Prehabilitation Among Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Therapy for Cancer Surgery in China: A Mixed-Methods Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prognostic value of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and malnutrition status on postoperative complications in patients following laryngectomy with neck dissection.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cancer surgery places a significant burden on a patients' functional status and quality of life. In addition, cancer surgery is fraught with postoperative complications, themselves influenced by a patient's functional status. Prehabilitation is a unimodal or multimodal strategy that aims to increase a patient's functional capacity to reduce postoperative complications and improve postoperative recovery and quality of life. In most cases, it involves exercise, nutrition, and anxiety-reducing interventions. The impact of prehabilitation has been explored in several types of cancer surgery, most commonly colorectal and thoracic. Overall, the existing evidence suggests prehabilitation improves physiological outcomes (e.g., lean body mass, maximal oxygen consumption) as well as clinical outcomes (e.g., postoperative complications, quality of life). Notably, the benefit of prehabilitation is additional to that of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs. While safe, prehabilitation programs require multidisciplinary coordination preoperatively. Despite the existence of numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses, the certainty of evidence demonstrating the efficacy and safety of prehabilitation is low to moderate, principally due to significant methodological heterogeneity and small sample sizes. There is a need for more large-scale multicenter randomized controlled trials to draw strong clinical recommendations.
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