Sub acute rehabilitation does have benefits for patients with advanced cancer

It is with concern we read a recent Letter to the Editor (Desai et al., 50(2), 2017) that stated 'people with gastrointestinal cancer did not benefit from the admission to sub-acute rehabilitation', concluding that inpatient rehabilitation could do more harm than good. People with advanced cancer may not always achieve physical gains following rehabilitation but to state there is no benefit is an over-simplification. This was a very small sample size (n=22), one third of whom had metastatic pancreas cancer where rapid functional decline is seen in the last weeks of life.

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