Feasibility and outcomes of a real-world regional lung cancer prehabilitation programme in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prehabilitation, or multimodality patient optimisation before major treatment, has demonstrated meaningful improvements in patients' outcomes. In the setting of lung cancer surgery, postoperative complications and length of hospital stay are reduced, but there is currently limited access to prehabilitation. Prehab4Cancer (P4C) is an innovative regional programme serving all areas of Greater Manchester (GM).

Methods

The lung cancer P4C service commenced in 2019 as a collaboration between the GM Cancer alliance and 12 leisure and community organisations. Patients planning surgical resection could be referred to receive exercise, nutrition, and well-being assessment and interventions before surgery. We evaluated the programme's feasibility, uptake, and outcomes durin

SUBMITTER: Bradley P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9875904 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature