NCT04518488

Prehabilitation Soft-Tissue Sarcoma of Lower Limb

Starting Recovery Pre-operatively: Feasibility of Implementing Individualized Prehabilitation for People Scheduled for Lower Limb Soft-tissue Sarcoma Surgery

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: McGill University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is about preparing people with cancerous tumours, soft-tissue sarcoma (STS), in the leg to recover more quickly from surgery. Prehabilitation or "surgery school" is done before surgery while undergoing other cancer-related treatments. To test this idea, two groups will be formed. One group will have the prehabilitation program and the other group will have the same amount of attention from the research team who will visit them at the time of the radiotherapy sessions to provide support and any information they may need.The results of the study will indicate whether it is a good idea to conduct a bigger study that would involve many centres in Canada.

Detailed description

This study is about preparing people with cancerous tumours, soft-tissue sarcoma (STS), in the leg to recover more quickly from surgery. Prehabilitation or "surgery school" is done before surgery while undergoing other cancer-related treatments. The tumour can be anywhere in the leg so exercises must be specially designed for each person. This process is novel and therefore has to be tested to see if it is practical and if it helps people recovery more quickly. To test this idea, two groups will be formed. One group will have the prehabilitation program and the other group will have the same amount of attention from the research team who will visit them at the time of the radiotherapy sessions to provide support and any information they may need. Assessments of how well participants can do basic activities of daily living will be assessed at study entry, just prior to surgery and then at 2, 6 and 12 weeks after surgery. Other measures of recovery will be distance covered while walking for six minutes, quality of the walking, and how quickly participants can walk outdoors for 1000 steps, and then 3000, 5000 and 9000. The investigators will ask participants which of these outcome measures they think best reflected their recovery and why. The investigators will also assess whether people were willing to enter the study and complete all the processes required. The results of the study will indicate whether it is a good idea to conduct a bigger study that would involve many centres in Canada.

Conditions

• Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercises	Personalized and individualized exercises for lower limb soft-tissue sarcoma of each participant in this group.
OTHER	Informational Support Group (Control group)	The focus for participants in the Informational Support Group will be on needs for information and psychosocial support during the pre-operative period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-15
• Primary completion: 2021-02-15
• Completion: 2021-09-15
• First posted: 2020-08-19
• Last updated: 2020-09-21