Caroline Tweedie interviews Dawn Hodgson Cancer Prehabilitation Project Manager about the benefit of Prehab.
Prehabilitation means getting ready for cancer treatment at whatever time you have before it starts.
Dawn Hodgson talks about Some of the positive effects of prehabilitation in cancer patients: Reduce the length of stay in hospital. Reduce post-treatment complications. Enhance recovery following treatment.
Dawn discusses how Prehabilitation identifies those at risk and helps prepare them before their treatment starts, to reduce their risks and complications. This includes personalised management of exercise, nutrition, and psychological support, and the promotion of healthy behaviours intended to increase their resilience to treatment, and to improve their long-term health.