Cancer ‘prehabilitation’ can reduce complications and improve treatment outcomes, as reported in the August American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R).

Cancer prehabilitation, a process on the continuum of care that occurs between the time of cancer diagnosis and the beginning of acute treatment, includes physical and psychological assessments that establish a baseline functional level, identifies impairments, and provides targeted interventions that improve a patient’s health to reduce the incidence and the severity of current and future impairments.

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