Inside Precision Medicine September 20, 2024
Wearable devices could help personalize rehabilitation after surgery, with a clinical trial showing that they can help postoperative recovery in patients with lung cancer.
The study, reported in the journal JAMA Network Open, shows how data collected from wearable devices can be incorporated into clinical care.
A peri-operative exercise program with personalized activity monitoring improved post-operative physical activity and patient-reported outcomes after lung cancer surgery compared with standard care.
“This finding supports the development of personalized exercise regimens with wearable devices, advocating for their inclusion in comprehensive perioperative rehabilitation programs,” reported Junghee Lee, PhD, from Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine in Seoul, and colleagues.
Cardiopulmonary function generally improves over time after surgical resection for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC),...
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