Integrating psychosocial, sleep, and nutritional support boosts recovery and survival after low rectal cancer resection.

• Patients receiving integrated support had a 90.3% disease-free survival at 2 years compared to 79.2% for standard care (p = 0.028).
• Their overall survival improved to 93.6% vs. 82.5% (p = 0.019).

Consider integrating these supportive interventions into surgical practice to enhance patient outcomes and recovery.

• Postoperative inflammatory markers were significantly lower in the intervention group (p < 0.001).