Evidence shows focusing on physical activity, nutrition, and psychological support, can help speed up recovery and reduce complications during surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
It also improves quality of life and helps you to maintain independence.
There are five main parts to prehabilitation
- Physical activity
- Eating for wellness
- Psychological and emotional wellbeing
- Stopping smoking
- Cutting down alcohol
Cancer prehabilitation video
The benefits to prehabilitation
Prepares you mentally and physically for treatment
Increases your fitness and strength prior to treatment
Reduces length of stay in hospital
Reduces post op complications
Reduced complications from systemic treatment
Improves fitness
Improves nutritional health
Provides a chance to stop smoking and reduce or stop drinking alcohol
Improves your quality of life
Helps you to stay independent and keep doing the things that matter the most
Supports better treatment results and may increase options for treatment
Reduces the chances of your cancer returning, or the chances of other cancers and health conditions developing
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