HOPE - A Study to Evaluate the Effect of a Prehabilitation Program on GI Cancer Patients Planning to Undergo Surgery
Status unconfirmed · Phase 4
Conditions studied: Pancreatic Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Gastric Cancer
In brief
A one-group prospective cohort study design with measures collected pre- and post-intervention. The primary goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of a multimodal prehabilitation preoperative program on changes in frailty in upper gastrointestinal surgical oncology patients.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03642093
- Run by
- Siobhan Trotter
- People needed
- 60
- Starts
- 2018-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2019-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-09-11
Who can join
Age: 25 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All patients must be patients of Ochsner being seen at the Ochsner Medical Center (OMC).
- All patients must be 25 to 80 years of age.
- All patients must have a diagnosis of cancer.
- > 10 pound unintentional weight loss within 1 year
- Ability to perform grip strength test and Timed Up and Go (TUG) test
- Willingness to participate in the study, document compliance, and attend clinical appointments
- All patients must be undergoing one of the following major elective surgical oncologic resections with curative intent:
- Pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer
- Distal pancreatectomy / splenectomy for pancreatic cancer
- Esophageal robotic assisted laparoscopic thoracoscopic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer
- Laparoscopic or open, partial or total gastrectomy for gastric cancer
You may not qualify if…
- All patients not undergoing oncologic or major resections.
- All patients unwilling or unable to answer questionnaires or accept help to answer electronic or paper questionnaires.
- All patients that are unable to participate in an activity program.
- All patients unable to wear an electronic activity monitoring device.
- All patients not wanting to follow a specific nutritional and breathing intervention.
- All patients that are not able or wishing to consent.
Where it is running
- Ochsner Medical Center — New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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