The acceptability of exercise prehabilitation before cancer surgery among patients, family members and health professionals: a mixed methods evaluation.

Purpose: Exercise prehabilitation aims to increase preoperative fitness, reduce post-operative complications, and improve health-related quality of life. For prehabilitation to work, access to an effective programme which is acceptable to stakeholders is vital. The aim was to explore acceptability of exercise prehabilitation before cancer surgery among key stakeholders specifically patients, family members and healthcare providers.

Tracheoesophageal fistula development following radiotherapy and tyrosine kinase inhibitors in a patient with advanced follicular thyroid carcinoma: a case-based review.

Introduction: Tracheoesophageal fistulas (TEF) are a rare complication that can occur in patients with radioactive iodine refractory metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) following treatment with radiotherapy (RT) and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI).

Methods: We describe the case of a TEF development in a 69-year-old male who underwent targeted therapy TKIs and adjuvant RT for radioactive iodine refractory FTC.

Results: In the case, staging investigations revealed a metastatic, poorly differentiated FTC refractory to radioactive iodine.