Well done to the team at NorthumbriaNHS for recruiting our first patient in March! 🎉🏋️‍♀️🚴‍♀️

We've made changes to PREPARE-ABC to make intervention delivery easier for sites and patients during COVID19, such as: - Allowing for verbal consent - Pausing randomisation to the Hospital based arm Get in touch if you have any questions, we're happy to help! #prehab 🎉🚴‍♂️

Please let us know if there's anything we can do to make restarting PREPARE-ABC at your trust easier - we're looking forward to getting back on track! #prehab #crstrials #bowelcancer 🚴‍♂️🏋️‍♀️🎉

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We're so close to our next major milestone, which site will recruit the 600th patient? 🚴‍♂️ There could be a prize in store! ... 👑 #crstrials #colorectalcancer #prehab

We're only 1 patient away from our 600th randomisation - the race is on! ... 🏋️‍♀️🚴‍♀️ #crstrials #colorectalcancer #prehab

We've done it! 👏🎉🚴‍♀️ PREPARE-ABC has recruited its 600th patient. A huge thank you to all our hardworking sites - and a shout out to the team at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust for randomising patient 600! #crstrials #colorectalcancer #prehab #exercise

Congratulations to the team Research at NWAngliaFT who have just recruited another patient to PREPARE-ABC. We're thrilled to have you back up and running! #crstrials #prehab #colorectalcancer

Our second shout-out of the day goes to the team NNUH Research who have recruited their first patient since our COVID19 pause! Well done! 🏋️‍♀️🚴‍♀️🎉 #prehab #colorectalcancer #crstrials

We're publishing our PREPARE-ABC trial protocol with Colorectal Disease - you can find a copy of the accepted article here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… John Saxton #crstrials #colorectalcancer #cancer #prehab #prehabilitation

Our PREPARE-ABC protocol paper just published on-line: doi.org/10.1111/codi.1…

We've made changes to PREPARE-ABC to make intervention delivery easier for sites and patients during COVID19, such as: - Allowing for verbal consent - Pausing randomisation to the Hospital based arm Get in touch if you have any questions, we're happy to help! #prehab 🚴‍♀️🏋️‍♀️🎉

Congratulations to the team NNUH Research for randomising the first October participant! 🎉🏋️‍♀️ #colorectalcancer #crstrials #prehab

Shout out to the PREPARE-ABC team Ipswich Hospital for recruiting a patient this month! We're so pleased to have you back up and running 🏋️‍♀️🎉 #prehab #crstrials #colorectalcancer

Our pilot paper is in the November issue of Colorectal Disease, you can read it here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… #crstrials #colorectalcancer #prehab John Saxton 🎉🏋️‍♀️🚴‍♀️

Happy New Year from the PREPARE-ABC Team! We're excited to bring #prehab to 2022 🚴‍♀️🏋️‍♀️🎉 #colorectalcancer #crstrials #exercise

“The effects of perioperative exercise on cancer-specific and surgical outcomes are unknown in patients with gastrointestinal cancer due to lack of studies and very low certainty of evidence.”More adequately powered trials like Prepare-ABC urgently needed! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34294466/

#ACC2022 Delighted that James Hernon will speak on Preoptimisation & prehabilitation Chairs: susan moug charles maxwell-armstrong Gemma Faulkner Mike Davies tan arulampalam 🌟#Register bit.ly/ACC2022-Reg🌟 👀Access #ACC2021 Management of high output stomas & fistulas Jonathan Epstein

We're off to a flying start in March, with a fantastic 6 patients so far! Well done to all our sites for their hard work in getting back up to speed 🏋️‍♀️🚴‍♀️👏 #prehab #colorectalcancer

Another great systematic review, same conclusion: more highly quality adequately powered trials needed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35588252/