Prehabilitation for 62-year-old female patient with a transverse colon tumor and underweight

The present article discusses the perioperative management issues in patients with frailty and other geriatric syndromes focusing mainly on the prevention and correction of malnutrition, ESPEN practical guidelines: Clinical Nutrition in cancer. The concept of prehabilitation is described — a multimodal strategy that is implemented from the moment of diagnosis to surgical treatment, aimed at enhancing postoperative outcomes, which elements have a synergistic effect. The clinical case of 62-year-old female patient prehabilitation with a long-term underweight, prefrailty, sarcopenia, osteoporosis and developed because of a transverse colon tumor malnutrition syndrome is given.