Pre-operative Prehabilitation in Cancer Surgery - Objective Recovery Assessment (Popcorn)

Linköping University (LiU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: Standard care; Other: Prehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05270577

Popcorn

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare prehabilitation with physical exercise, psychological support, nutritional support and smoke/alchol stop to "standard of care" before canceer surgery.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients, aged 18 or older, who have been evaluated as eligible for surgery for malignancy in the esophagus, rectum or liver (only metastases from colorectal cancer) will be evaluated for participation.

Exclusion criteria

• Surgery is scheduled in less than 12 weeks.
• Paralytic or completely immobilized patient, condition making physical training impractical.
• Cognitive disability making participation impossible.
• Not speaking or understanding the Swedish language well enough to read and understand the informed consent form.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Prehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

Prehabilitation with physical exercise, psychological support, nutritional support and smoking/alchohol stop

Treatment:

Other: Prehabilitation

Standard care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard preoperative recomendations

Treatment:

Other: Standard care