Normative Ranges of Lingual Strength and Endurance and the Impact of the IOPI Lingual Strength Trainer on Quantitative Functional Outcomes and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Partial Glossectomy or Hemiglossectomy for Oral Tongue Cancer, An Unblinded: Randomized Pilot Study
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Conditions studied: Tongue Cancer
In brief
The purpose of this study is to learn more about tongue strength and endurance by using the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI). The IOPI is a device that measures tongue pressure.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07124520
- Run by
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- People needed
- 60
- Starts
- 2025-08-07
- Expected to finish
- 2028-08-07
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-06-30
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age ≥18 years old
- Scheduled to undergo primary surgery for oral tongue cancer (glossectomy types 1 to 3) using any type of closure or reconstruction
You may not qualify if…
- Previous radiation therapy to the oral cavity or head and neck
- Previous surgery for oral cavity cancer
- Recurrent oral cavity cancer
- Surgical requirement of extension to involve bone (mandible resection)
- Subtotal or total glossectomy
- Feeding tube dependance prior to surgery
Where it is running
- Memorial Sloan Kettering at Basking Ridge (Consent only) — Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States (enrolling)
- Memoral Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Consent only) — Middletown, New Jersey, United States (enrolling)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Consent Only) — Montvale, New Jersey, United States (enrolling)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk-Commack (Consent only) — Commack, New York, United States (enrolling)
- Memoral Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent only) — Harrison, New York, United States (enrolling)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activites) — New York, New York, United States (enrolling)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Nassau (Consent only) — Uniondale, New York, United States (enrolling)
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