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Barriers included competing care priorities, lack of familiarity with prehabilitation, logistical challenges, and stigmatized perceptions of help-seeking. To promote improved patient engagement, prehabilitation interventions should be initiated near diagnosis, offer personalized, goal-oriented interventions with multiple components, and have options for virtual participation to increase accessibility. These recommendations may help improve the uptake and impact of prehabilitation programming in prostate cancer care. 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