Over the last decade, the number of research studies investigating the potential benefit
of prehabilitation on improving postoperative outcomes of patients undergoing cancer
surgery has increased dramatically. Preoperative exercise-based interventions have
been shown to be acceptable, feasible and most importantly safe for patients undergoing
gastrointestinal and thoracic cancer surgery [
[1]
]. Preoperative exercise is also shown to improve preoperative functional capacity,
a key modifiable component directly associated with improved postoperative recovery
[
[2]
]. Significantly, there are now a plethora of randomised controlled trials and systematic
reviews and more recently umbrella reviews demonstrating the effectiveness of preoperative
exercise prehabiltation on reducing postoperative surgical morbidity and length of
hospital stay, when compared to no exercise prehabilitation [
3
,
4
,
5
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Publication history
Published online: December 01, 2022
Accepted:
November 28,
2022
Received in revised form:
November 15,
2022
Received:
October 17,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Journal Pre-ProofIdentification
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