Prehabilitation

Prehabilitaton helps you prepare for cancer treatment and includes support to help you improve your physical activity, nutrition and emotional wellbeing.

Making a small number of changes now can make a big difference to the way you respond and recover from your cancer treatment. It can also help you to feel more in control of your physical and mental health.

How can prehabilitation help me?

Research shows that if you get support early on and are as healthy as possible before treatment starts, you are more likely to:

• leave hospital sooner after cancer surgery
• cope better with the side effects of cancer treatment
• have fewer side effects
• have more treatment options
• have better long term health

Watch the Macmillan videos about the importance of prehabilitation

What does prehabilitation involve?

It’s a programme of support that covers your:

• nutrition and diet
• physical activity
• emotional wellbeing

The links above include information on how you can prepare for treatment in each area.

At your diagnosis, our medical team will check for any problems you have in the areas above. We may then refer you for things like physiotherapy or nutrition support.

Find out more about prehabilitation

You can also call us on 01296 8383340 or email bht.cancer.inf@nhs.net