Colorectal Cancer Prehabilitation in Changi General Hospital

Changi General Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colorectal Cancer

Treatments: Other: Colorectal Cancer Prehabilitation Programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05169528

CIRB Ref No.:2020/2063

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer prehabilitation typically involves multiple pre-op visits. The investigators aim to assess the impact of their novel model, a "one-stop "service by a small, "levelled-up" core team on newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients planned for surgery.

Full description

Objective Cancer prehabilitation typically involves multiple pre-op visits. The investigators aim to assess the impact of their novel model, a "one-stop "service by a small, "levelled-up" core team on newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients planned for surgery.

Design This is a before-after trial in a tertiary public hospital in Singapore, involving all newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients planned for surgery who are referred to the Cancer Prehabilitation Program. The primary outcome measure is the 6-minute-walk-test. Others include physical, psychological, quality-of-life and post-operative measures, and patient-satisfaction-surveys, taken at baseline, pre-operatively (post-prehabilitation), and 3-months-post-operatively.

Keywords: Colorectal; Cancer Prehabilitation; Novel; Model of Care

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. All newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients planned for surgery in Changi General Hospital, Singapore

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients' refusal to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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59 participants in 1 patient group

Colorectal Cancer Prehabilitation Program

Other group

Description:

This is a before-after trial. The same group of participants will have a series of outcome measures taken at baseline, which will then be compared to these same outcome measures when repeated after undergoing prehabilitation and at 3 months' post-operatively

Treatment:

Other: Colorectal Cancer Prehabilitation Programme