Prof Tara Rampal discusses the many benefits of prehabilitation and introduces a prehab service she has recently launched.

Prehabilitation is a concept and a word that didn’t even exist a short while ago. It’s one of those areas in which science has begun to underpin common sense – the common sense that a stronger, fitter, more resilient cancer patient is likely to have a better quality of life during treatment and better outcomes, notably with a lower risk of recurrence. Prof Tara Rampal has focused on prehab and has developed an online service to spread the benefits as far and wide as possible.

References from the show:

• QuestPrehab
• Patients offered yoga, tai chi and boxing ‘prehab’ classes in effort to slash cancer re-admission rates by half, Daily Mail, by Jo Macfarlane, published on 9 December 2023