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ABSTRACT

Based on the scientific rationale that in cancer, prehabilitation, by definition, involves interventions aimed at improving patients’ health prior to surgery and/or the start of other anti-neoplastic therapies, so that they are better able to withstand that stress, this interview highlights the possibility of applying prehabilitation interventions to improve COVID-19 outcomes, particularly regarding the baseline fitness, nutrition, smoking cessation, and stress reduction. Furthermore, there is discussion about using interventions through telemedicine, and the need for future research to understand short- and long-term effects of “social distancing”, one of the strategies adopted to avoid contagion.