Benefits of Exercise Training in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Organ-Preserving Definitive Therapy
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
In brief
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential benefit of an individualized resistance exercise-training program during radiotherapy for patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01794481
- Run by
- University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
- People needed
- 24
- Starts
- 2010-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-05-20
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage II-IV head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who are beginning first-line non-surgical treatment with radiotherapy (with or without chemotherapy or targeted agents), and who are capable of understanding and adhering to the protocol requirements.
- Patients must be willing to comply with the study procedures and visits
You may not qualify if…
- Active cardiopulmonary disease
- Substantial dementia (based on Folstein Mini Mental State Examination <24 out of 30)
- Acute medical conditions, such as acute flare-up of joint condition or infection
- Participants must not be actively receiving physical therapy, at time of enrollment, or actively exercising 2 or more hours a day, with the intent to continue that regimen
- Patients refusing a percutaneous endoscopic gastrotomy (PEG) Tube needed for nutrition, as determined necessary by treating physician
- Patients are actively being treated for another cancer at the time of enrollment.
Where it is running
- Veterans Affairs (VA) Ann Arbor Healthcare System — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- The University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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