Table 3.

Summary of prehabilitation studies for pancreatic resection.

	Year	Study Design	No.	Exercise Plan	Key Findings
Nakajima et al.	2019	Retrospective, cohort	76	30 days Unsupervised, self-reported exercise	Shorter length of stay in prehabilitation group (23 days vs. 30 days, p = 0.045)
Ausania et al.	2019	Randomised controlled trial	18	2 weeks supervised and unsupervised, aerobic exercise	Reduction in DGE in prehabilitation group (5.6% vs. 40.9%, p = 0.01)
Florez Bedoya et al.	2019	Prospective, cohort	23	15 weeks unsupervised, self-reported, aerobic and resistance exercise	No comment on clinical outcomes Evidence of prehabilitation increasing tumour vascularity.
Marker et al.	2018	Case series	3	12–16 weeks, supervised, physiotherapist reported, hour long, 3× a week	Underpowered
Parker et al	2018	Prospective, cohort	50	60 min per week unsupervised, self-reported aerobic and strengthening exercise	No comment on clinical outcomes Home based exercise programme feasible
Ngo-Huang et al	2019	Prospective, cohort	50	2 weeks, unsupervised, self-reported, hour long aerobic exercise	Prehabilitation associated with improved physical function (6MWT, STS, GS improved from baseline, p = 0.48, 0.03 & 0.08, respectively) and HRQOL (Improved with increased LPA (p = 0.01)

6MWT = 6 min walk test, STS = Sit to stand, GS = Gait speed, HRQOL = Health Related Quality of Life, LPA = Light physical activity.