ArticleFrontiers in oncology2025
Application of prehabilitation program in elderly patients undergoing esophageal cancer surgery.
Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Prehabilitation in older adults with cancer: scoping review of surgical outcomes.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2026Article
- Construction of a preoperative prehabilitation program for elderly esophageal cancer patients.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Functional dependence predicts adverse outcomes among geriatric otolaryngology patients better than more complex risk scales: a multivariate analysis of hospitalization risks on elderly group.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: To explore the effectiveness of prehabilitation program on elderly patients undergoing esophageal cancer surgery. Methods: A total of 96 elderly esophageal cancer surgery patients from a tertiary hospital were selected. The control group included 48 patients treated from August to November 2023, and the prehabilitation group consisted of 48 patients treated from December 2023 to March 2024. The control group received routine care from the time of diagnosis until surgery, while the prehabilitation group received the prehabilitation program in addition to routine care. The nutritional status, hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS), six-minute walking distance (6MWD), and quality of life (SF-36) were compared between the two groups at different time points before and after the intervention. Additionally, postoperative hospital stay, time to chest drain removal, time to first ambulation, and complications were evaluated. Results: During the research process, in the control group, one case fell out, while two cases fell out in the prehabilitation group. The t-test and Mann Whitney U test showed that at different time points after the intervention, the indicators in the prehabilitation group were significantly better than those in the control group ( Conclusion: Prehabilitation has a positive effect on improving the functional reserve, nutritional status, and psychological well-being of elderly patients undergoing esophageal cancer surgery, thus promoting postoperative recovery.
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