Key result
Digital health and AI offer innovative physical and nutritional prehabilitation for sarcopenic surgical oncology patients.
Why the study?
Sarcopenia leads to poorer outcomes in surgical oncology, and rapid advances in artificial intelligence and digital health offer new opportunities for preoperative risk assessment and prehabilitation.
How can digital health and medical technology be incorporated into physical and nutritional prehabilitation for surgical oncology patients with sarcopenia?
How can digital health and medical technology be incorporated into physical and nutritional prehabilitation for surgical oncology patients with sarcopenia?
Digital health and medical technology offer innovative avenues for physical and nutritional prehabilitation in surgical oncology patients with sarcopenia.
May inform future prehabilitation strategies; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Sarcopenia has been shown to cause poorer outcomes in surgical oncology. With the advancement of artificial intelligence technology, body composition analysis can be obtained with ease. Given the lead time between cancer diagnosis and surgery, selected patients at risk of complications secondary to sarcopenia may be amenable to prehabilitation. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the rapid adaptation of digital health and medical technology. Our perspective piece will review the current available evidence and propose innovative ways to incorporate technology into physical and nutritional prehabilitation.
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Tang et al. (2024) conducted a review in Sarcopenia in surgical oncology. Digital health and medical technology was evaluated. Digital health and artificial intelligence technologies offer innovative approaches to incorporate physical and nutritional prehabilitation for patients with sarcopenia in surgical oncology.
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