Conclusion
colorectal cancer
COLORECTAL CANCER
Four weeks of multimodal prehabilitation prior to elective curative intended colorectal cancer surgery in patients with WHO performance status I or II was associated with a clinically relevant improvement in postoperative recovery.Registration number: NCT04167436 (In this randomized clinical trial comparing patients undergoing 4 weeks of multimodal prehabilitation prior to elective colorectal cancer surgery with usual care, prehabilitation was associated with a clinically relevant improvement in postoperative recovery. The overall treatment effect associated with the intervention was an improvement in the quality of recovery-15 score of 21.9 (95% c.i. 4.5–39.3) during the first 3 postoperative days compared to control.