A randomised controlled trial to assess whether prehabilitation improves fitness in patients undergoing neoadjuvant treatment prior to oesophagogastric cancer surgery: study protocol

INTRODUCTION: Neoadjuvant therapy prior to oesophagogastric resection is the gold standard of care for patients with T2 and/or nodal disease. Despite this, studies have taught us that chemotherapy decreases patients’ functional capacity as assessed by cardiopulmonary exercise (CPX) testing. We aim t...

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Autores principales: Allen, Sophie, Brown, Vanessa, Prabhu, Pradeep, Scott, Michael, Rockall, Timothy, Preston, Shaun, Sultan, Javed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
Materias:
Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6318540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30580268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023190

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6318540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30580268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023190

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