Functional assessment at oncologic rehabilitation scenario: A comprehensive approach for know functional risks and prevention of disability related to cancer and its treatments

Abstract

Cancer is a prevalent chronic non-transmissible disease; whose risk increases with aging and in some cases with exposure to determinate risk factors. The Functional Assessment at Oncologic Rehabilitation Scenario, is an important issue at the comprehensive approach, that is extrapolated from geriatric rehabilitation strategies. In which seeks to know both the functional status of the performance components and the identification of the functional risks derived from the disease and the treatment. The objective is to guide rehabilitation strategies according to the needs, the functional capacity of the patient, their prognosis and stage of the life cycle, along oncological treatment. To define a reference framework for the functional evaluation of oncological patients, according to their stage of life cycle and the definition of functional risk derived from personal status, oncological disease and their proposed oncologic treatment. Criteria and guidelines had been developed from literature review and teamwork experience during the last years in a rehabilitation service of a national reference center for cancer in Colombia. As a result, we are building rehabilitation interventions for patients across different stages of the disease (diagnosis, active treatment, palliative treatment, end of life), that have a correspondence with de moment in the cycle of life, the functional risks detected and their functional prognosis and living prognosis.