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Prehabilitation Reduce FOLFOX Side Effects?
Does prehabilitation reduce FOLFOX side effects? Yes, according to the video and research linked below. According to research, prehabilitation can enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy while it reduces the toxicity of chemo, reducing side effects.
If you have been diagnosed with colorectal cancer and you will be undergoing FOLFOX treatment in the coming weeks, begin a program of
- daily, moderate exercise
- anti-colon cancer diet
- anti-colon cancer nutritional supplementation
- gut microbiome enhancement
Improving patient outcomes with prehabilitation
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Chemotherapy has many benefits to the colorectal cancer patient. Unfortunately, short-term, long-term and late stage side effects can ruin the patient’s quality of life. Prehabilitation can counteract negative side effects allowing the colon cancer patient to withstand the full course of treatment.
I am a long-term survivor of a very different type of cancer. Side effects resulting from chemotherapy are a common problem across almost every type of cancer at almost every stage.
Have you been diagnosed with colorectal cancer? What stage? Are you considering chemotherapy? Scroll down the page, post a question or a comment, and I will reply to you ASAP.
Good luck,
David Emerson
- Cancer Survivor
- Cancer Coach
- Director PeopleBeatingCancer
Prehabilitation is the Gateway to Better Functional Outcomes for Individuals with Cancer
Abstract
Prehabilitation is a clinical model that introduces components of rehabilitation to patients prior to undergoing intensive medical interventions, such as surgery, in order to optimize function and improve tolerability to the intervention.
Cancer care introduces a continuum of sequential or concurrent intensive anti-neoplastic medical interventions that are known to be detrimental to a patient’s function. Prehabilitation evidence has grown across several areas of oncology care delivery demonstrating that a multi-modal rehabilitative intervention, delivered prior to oncology-direct therapies, leads to better functional outcomes and improves important endpoints associated with surgery and cancer treatment.
This commentary article provides a brief history of the emergence of prehabilitation in cancer care delivery, reviews the current evidence base and guidelines for prehabilitation, and offers insights for future implementation of this model as a standard in oncology care.
A prehabilitation program is an optimal starting point for most patients undergoing anti-neoplastic therapy as it serves as a gateway to improving functional outcomes throughout the cancer continuum. Future research in prehabilitation should aim to reach beyond measuring functional outcomes and to explore the impact of this model on important disease treatment endpoints such as tumor response to oncology-directed treatment, impact on treatment-related toxicities, and disease progression…
Summary
Although prehabilitation has been incorporated into some clinical practice guidelines and other authoritative reports,35–37 there are still many gaps in the science and recommendations.9 Nevertheless, prehabilitation involves an important set of clinical interventions which can not only improve physical, psychological, and functional outcomes but also may be cost effective10 and amenable to use with new technologies in virtual care.38
We believe that the rapidly growing field of prehabilitation should be embraced by professionals across rehabilitation medicine and in oncology. The expertise of rehabilitation professionals in neuromusculoskeletal conditions, including an understanding of physical impairment and function and skilled interventions in remediating functional limitation for the medically complex individual with cancer make us an optimal member of the oncology care team.
However, integration of prehabilitation into oncology care will require a different and more proactive engagement of the rehabilitation professional. Because of the rapidly growing survivor population and the substantial and growing burden of their functional needs, early referral to prehabilitation and rehabilitation services should become a standard in the cancer care continuum.
There is great opportunity for early cancer rehabilitation involvement and follow patients throughout Dietz’s stages of cancer rehabilitation39 perhaps under a prospective surveillance care model.40 Prehabilitation introduces the concepts of function and exercise to the patient at diagnosis and serves as the gateway to better functional outcomes for individuals with cancer.
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