Cancer Prehab and Rehab
Our cancer prehab and rehab services provide support to help people prepare for treatment, recover, and rebuild strength, empowering them to live well through and beyond cancer.
Cancer Prehabilitation Programme
Our region faces high cancer rates due to socioeconomic factors, smoking, and industry. This programme addresses these inequalities by providing holistic care in line with Macmillan guidance.
Our exercise-based Cancer Prehabilitation Programme aims to optimise physical and psychological well-being for patients before cancer treatment.
Delivered in group settings at the Health Resource Centre, Newcastle NE4 8BE, sessions will be held twice a week for up to 6 weeks by specialists in cancer exercise prescription.
Activity details:
- Health Resource Centre, Newcastle NE4 8BE
- Twice a week for up to 6 weeks
- Exercise to improve physical outcomes and well-being in preparation for surgical chemotherapy, or radiation therapy treatment
Participants will be referred to this service by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals.
Contact us or speak to your healthcare professional if you have any questions.
The RENEW Programme
In partnership with Treskock we are delighted to offer the RENEW programme for people living with or beyond cancer.
What is RENEW?
RENEW is an 8 week programme of small group classes of up to 12 people who are living with or recovered from cancer.
The sessions are based at the Health Resource Centre, Adelaide Terrace, NE4 8BE and are led by a personal instructor who is specialised in training people who have been diagnosed with cancer or are living with the effects.
Each session builds on the one before and can be adjusted for any level of fitness and other limitations. The class will include resistance training and cardio to build strength, stamina, and confidence.
At the end of the 8 weeks, you will be sent a certificate to celebrate your achievements and can join our fortnightly top-up sessions to help keep you active.
The RENEW programme aims to:
- Raise awareness in young cancer patients about physical activity guidelines and its benefits during and after treatment.
- Provide guidance and skill-building to help young people increase activity levels and meet national recommendations.
- Support sustainable behavior change for long-term physical activity.
- Ensure physical activity is enjoyable, enhances quality of life, aids recovery, and reduces cancer-related fatigue and other treatment side effects.
- Offer peer support, helping young people connect with others who face similar physical and mental challenges in staying active.
Who is it for?
• Young adults aged 20 to 40 who have or have had cancer at any point in their lifetime. They may be currently in active treatment or post treatment.
• Participants in active treatment can refer themselves or be referred by a member of their Multi Disciplinary Team (medical consent to enrol on the programme must be given by their Medical Oncology Team or CNS). Participants who have been discharged from treatment can refer themselves or be referred by their GP.
Please note that people with medical issues that their healthcare professionals think would make any sort of increase in physical activity unsafe such as low platelet count/ blood count etc are unable to access the programme.
How to get involved
For more information and to self refer get in touch via the Trekstock website: https://www.trekstock.com/get-heard