Exercise prehabilitation in colorectal cancer: establishing mechanisms of adaptation to advance optimisation and stratification.

Bowel cancers, such as colon or rectal, are a leading cause of death, especially in those over the age of 60 years. However, if caught early, these cancers also present an opportunity for curative treatment. There is however a required period of less than 31 days from diagnosis of cancer to resection with curative intent, and this limits the…