Exercise During Active Surveillance for Localized Low-Risk Prostate Cancer: Current Evidence and a Survivorship Framework.

BACKGROUND: Active Surveillance (AS) is an established management strategy for appropriately selected men with localized low-risk prostate cancer, allowing many to defer or avoid definitive treatment while remaining under structured oncologic monitoring. Because surveillance may continue for years, survivorship needs during this period warrant greater attention. OBJECTIVE: This narrative and conceptual review summarizes current evidence regarding structured exercise during AS …

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Patient Perspectives on Prostate Cancer Prehabilitation: A Qualitative Study Using the Behaviour Change Wheel to Investigate Barriers and Facilitators to Engagement.

Cancer prehabilitation aims to improve outcomes by helping patients physically and mentally prepare for treatment. This qualitative study aimed to investigate barriers and facilitators to engaging in prostate cancer prehabilitation and create recommendations for designing interventions. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore perspectives on cancer prehabilitation among men diagnosed with prostate cancer in Alberta, Canada. Interviews were thematically analyzed to …

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