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Exercise prehabilitation benefits lung cancer patients undergoing surgery

Miriam Davis   |   Clinical Summary   |   24 February 2023
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Takeaway

  • Exercise prehabilitation programmes conducted in advance of surgery and designed to produce better surgical outcomes succeed in lowering the rate of post-operative pulmonary complications and serious complications, as well as shortening the length of hospital stay for patients with lung cancer, a meta-analysis finds.
  • Exercise prehabilitation programmes did not...

          

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