Home-based Exercise Training for Lung Cancer Patients Awaiting Surgery

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Neoplasm

Treatments: Behavioral: Preoperative home-based exercise training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05473052

HomeFittosurgery

Details and patient eligibility

About

Surgical resection is the only curative treatment in patients diagnosed with lung cancer, the most mortal type of malignancy globally. However, following lung cancer resection, patients experience a substantial deterioration in health-related quality of life and have an increased risk of developing pulmonary complications.

Although current clinical guidelines strongly recommend preoperative exercise training to improve clinical outcomes after lung cancer surgery, inaccessibility to facility-based exercise programs is a major barrier to routine participation, with patients indicating a strong preference to exercise in a home-based environment.

The primary purpose of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility of a home-based exercise program (HBEP) in lung cancer patients awaiting surgical treatment. The secondary purposes were to evaluate the safety of the HBEP and to explore exercise effects on patients' HRQOL and physical performance, either pre-and post-surgery.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scheduled for surgical treatment of suspected or confirmed lung cancer (clinical stage IIIA or less)
• Waiting time for surgery of at least two weeks from baseline assessment
• Medical clearance to exercise.
• Signed informed consent prior to initiation of study-related procedures.

Exclusion criteria

• Metastatic cancer
• Presence of physical or mental disabilities that contraindicated exercise training or physical testing
• Unable to communicate in Portuguese or English
• Performing combined aerobic plus resistance training over the past month (self-reported ≥2 days a week, ≥30 minutes each session).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

Preoperative home-based exercise training

Experimental group

Description:

Patients received usual care plus a preoperative home-based exercise program consisting of aerobic and resistance exercise. In addition, a physical therapist carried out weekly telephone supervision with all participants

Treatment:

Behavioral: Preoperative home-based exercise training