Abstract Context The Consensus on Therapeutic Exercise Training (CONTENT) scale
assesses the therapeutic validity of exercise programs. To date, prehabilitation exercise …

Introduction Cardiac surgery is an aggressive procedure, inducing a great level of stress and
disturbance to the homeostasis of the organism and underlying several postoperative …

Objective: To determine the effect of a short-term, unsupervised exercise intervention before
and after colorectal cancer surgery on self-assessed physical recovery. Summary of …

As a reflection of the increasing global incidence of obesity, there has been a corresponding
rise in the proportion of obese patients undergoing major surgery. This review reports the …

Introduction Frailty is a geriatric syndrome characterised by reductions in muscle mass,
strength, endurance and activity level. The frailty syndrome, prevalent in 25–50% of patients …

Objective Patients awaiting cardiac surgery seem to benefit from exercise-based
prehabilitation, but the impact on different perioperative outcomes compared with standard …

Cancers of the esophagus and stomach are challenging to treat. With the advent of
neoadjuvant therapies, patients frequently have a preoperative window with potential to …

Background Gastrointestinal cancer patients are susceptible to significant postoperative
morbidity. The aim of this systematic review was to examine the effects of preoperative …

Enarrative REVIEW ARTICLE criteria were soon validated in the Women's Health and Aging
Study, in which the prevalence and outcomes associated with frailty were similar, and latent …

The majority of men with prostate cancer are diagnosed when they are older than 65 years;
however, clinical trial participants are disproportionately younger and more fit than the real …