Preoperative Rehabilitation During Neoadjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer
Completed · Early Phase 1
Conditions studied: Pancreatic Cancer
In brief
The goal of this research study is to learn if it is possible to start a home-based exercise and nutrition program for patients with pancreatic cancer or who may have pancreatic cancer before surgery (pre-operative rehabilitation, also known as prehabilitation).
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02295956
- Run by
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- People needed
- 75
- Starts
- 2015-02-02
- Expected to finish
- 2019-06-06
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-06-12
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Pancreatic adenocarcinoma, biopsy-proven or suspected.
- Scheduled for intended pancreatectomy, > 4 weeks until planned resection.
- Scheduled for neoadjuvant chemotherapy and/or chemoradiation for pancreatic cancer.
- Able to understand the description of the study and willing to participate.
- Able to understand the exercise intervention and able to maintain a daily exercise log.
- Participant must have telephone access and agree to engage with telephone access with the research personnel.
You may not qualify if…
- Non-English speaking.
- Unable to complete the baseline assessment questionnaires or functional assessments.
- Underlying unstable cardiac or pulmonary disease or symptomatic cardiac disease (New York Heart Association functional class III or IV).
- Recent fracture or acute musculoskeletal injury that precludes the ability to weight bear fully on all 4 limbs in order to participate in an exercise intervention.
- Numeric pain rating scale of >/= 7 out of 10.
- Myopathic or rheumatologic disease that impacts physical function.
Where it is running
- University of Houston — Houston, Texas, United States
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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