Table 1.

Inclusion criteria.

Criteria	Category	Description
Inclusion criteria	Design	• RCTs or pseudo RCTs
	Participants	• Adults 18 years scheduled to undergo abdominal surgery for cancer with at least 10 study participants.
	Intervention	• Studies that evaluated a modality of exercise prehabilitation, including whole body or respiratory exercises, including education as a stand-alone intervention or included with a framework of multimodal interventions
	Comparison	• A similar patient-group that was not exposed to a prehabilitation program (e.g., standard care with no intervention).
	Outcome measures	• Studies that include a measure of cardiorespiratory fitness/functional capacity and/or measures of postoperative outcome

RCTs, randomised controlled trials.