NCT01048762

Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation After Cancer Pulmonis Operation

Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation After Cancer Pulmonis Operation - a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 78 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aalborg University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this investigation is to determine the effects of exercise training on quality of life and physical capacity, 3 months and 1 year after radical operation for pulmonary cancer.

Detailed description

Patients who are radically operated for pulmonary cancer report suffering from respiratory problems, mostly dyspnoea, 5 years after operation. Dyspnoea restricts their physical capability and leads to poorer physical, social and mental wellbeing. The effects of training programs on physical and mental wellbeing for cancer patients are well documented. Most of the studies are though performed on patients suffering from breast, colon and prostate cancer. There are only few studies addressing patients with pulmonary cancer. They are mostly focused on short term effects of exercise training on quality of life, with no control group included in the trials. These studies target patients after different forms for treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. There is no data referring to quality of life of patients who are radically operated for pulmonary cancer. Comparison: multidisciplinary group intervention consisting of exercise training and dyspnoea counseling, 10 times, once a week, compared with one instruction in exercise training and dyspnoea counseling. Exercise training is given by a physiotherapist. Both groups receive in addition standard treatment, which is up to 3 counseling sessions with a nurse.

Conditions

• Pulmonary Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	physical exercise and dyspnoea counseling	Exercise training in group, 1 hour once a week for 10 weeks, based om aerobic exercises 60-80% of VO2 max (Borg 11-12), resistance training and dyspnea counseling. Participants are urge to exercise training for at least twice a week.
OTHER	home training	one instruction in home based exercise training

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-01-01
• Completion: 2010-09-01
• First posted: 2010-01-14
• Last updated: 2015-10-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark