Cancer represents a major cause of mortality globally and by 2050 will be the ill health death across world, most particularly in low- middle-income countries (LMIC). For forty years, there has been increasing recognition need to better understand how modifiable factors related diet, nutrition physical activity can influence risk cancer, responses treatment, survival. The International Collabor...

Surgery represents a major stressor that disrupts homeostasis and can lead to loss of body cell mass. Integrated, multidisciplinary medical strategies, including enhanced recovery programs and perioperative nutrition support, can mitigate the surgically induced metabolic response, promoting optimal patient recovery following major surgery. Clinical therapies should identify those who are poorly...

10h15 " Emotion and Information: What is effective reassurance in Low Back Pain Consultations? " Nicola Holt – United Kingdom 10h15 " Influence of emotional stress on pain " Linda Hermans-Belgium 10h35 " Preoperative Pain Neuroscience Education for Lumbar Radiculopathy " Adriaan Louw – South Africa & U.S.A. 10h35 " What trait anxiety and sensory processing profile characteristics do patients wi...

BACKGROUND Many patients demonstrate psychological distress and reduced physical activity before coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Here we evaluated the addition of a brief, cognitive-behavioural intervention (the HeartOp Programme) to routine nurse counselling for people waiting for CABG surgery. METHODS Randomised controlled trial comparing nurse counselling with the HeartOp prog...