NCT04581005

Prehabilitation in Esophageal Cancer Care

Prehabilitation to Enhance Functional Capacity in Esophageal Cancer Care

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (estimated)
• Sponsor: McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Prehabilitation utilizes the preoperative period to prevent or attenuate the treatment-related functional decline and its consequences. This project aims at testing feasibility and effectiveness of multimodal prehabilitation in esophageal cancer care.

Detailed description

While evidence on prehabilitation is mounting, upper gastrointestinal surgery still remains under-investigated. This trial aims to explore the effect of prehabilitation over the whole perioperative trajectory, including neo-adjuvant treatment (NAT). Multimodal prehabilitation includes exercise, nutrition therapy, and mental distress coping strategies. In the context of a multimodal approach, the two groups follow different exercise prescriptions: high-intensity interval supervised training prescribed accordingly cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET)-derived variables, versus a home-based program. For both groups, multimodal prehabilitation is prescribed over the whole preoperative period, including during NAT.

Conditions

• Esophageal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Prehabilitation	Endurance and Resistance Exercise, Nutrition therapy, reducing intervention during the whole preoperative period

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-08-19
• Primary completion: 2022-06-01
• Completion: 2022-11-01
• First posted: 2020-10-09
• Last updated: 2021-09-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada