Judith Lacey: How a New Cancer Prehabilitation Program Improves Patient Outcomes

Judith Lacey, Head of Supportive Care and Integrative Oncology at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“As captured in this article, Lacey says ‘prehabilitation is a ‘relatively new‘ concept in cancer care, so funding hasn’t caught up with it yet’.
Cancer care is changing at a rapid rate and investment in evidence informed multidisciplinary prehabilitation and proactive supportive care programs is still only through research/sponsored programs such as these in the cancer space.
Isn’t it time to make this part of mainstream comprehensive cancer care?

In the meantime we continue to develop and run research and sponsor – funded programs across cancer streams at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse with our findings showing improved wellbeing, symptom control, preparedness for surgery. They may even save the health sector money and improve short and long term cancer outcomes!
Look forward to watching how this program roll out to rural and remote patients goes!”