Comprehensive Oncology Rehabilitation and Its Goals

In the past few years, the new effectiveness of treatments targeting neoplastic diseases has resulted in the increased survival of oncology patients faced with two possible options: either to recover from the disease or to long live with it. The rising number of people having suffered from such diseases has opened new scenarios with multiple implications as to the needs related to the improvement of the quality of life, which was previously considered as secondary to the life-or-death possible outcome, but has now made the role of rehabilitation medicine crucial to the care of patients affected by neoplasia [1, 2].