Author contributions

Ian M. Randall, Darren Au, Andrew G. Matthew, Daniel Sibley, Maggie Chen, Priya Brahmbhatt, Calvin Mach, Daniel Sellers, Shabbir M. H. Alibhai, Hance Clarke, Gail Darling, Stuart A. McCluskey, Laura McKinney, Karen Ng, Fayez Quereshy, Keyvan Karkouti, and Daniel Santa Mina contributed to conception and design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting and revising of the final manuscript. All authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Acknowledgments

Important to the program ideation and development were Drs Brian Cuthbertson, Anand Govindarajan, and Karim Ladha—to whom we are very thankful for their early contributions. We also wish to thank, Alaa El Danab, RD and Susan Haines, RD for contributions to dietetic prehabilitation, and Bailey Hill for her outstanding program administration support.

Disclosures

Daniel Santa Mina is a partner/founder of PrehabRx (Toronto, ON, Canada).

Funding statement

This work was financially supported by the Academic Health Science Centre Alternative Funding Plan with additional partial support from the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation. This work was also supported by the University Health Network – Sinai Health Academic Medical Organization Innovation Fund (Toronto, ON, Canada). The authors would like to acknowledge Enhanced Medical Nutrition (Toronto, ON, Canada) for providing the protein supplementation, and Seca for providing the mBCA 514.

Editorial responsibility

This submission was handled by Dr. Stephan K. W. Schwarz, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d’anesthésie.