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Pre-habilitation to Improve Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Liver Resection for Cancer

NCT01542281 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2012-03-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

1. To determine whether a combined nutritional support program and exercise-based prehabilitation is superior to nutritional support alone in increasing functional recovery and reducing post-operative morbidity after surgery for HPB malignancy.
2. To understand which measures of immediate surgical recovery are sensitive to prehabilitation interventions and predict change in later outcome measures.

Conditions

  • Colorectal Neoplasm
  • Biliary Tract Neoplasm
  • Liver Neoplasm

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Whey protein and dietary supplements

Whey protein and dietary supplements in addition to pre-hab exercise

OTHER

prehab exercise

minimum 4 weeks and maximum 8 weeks; 3 times a week

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Prosanto Chaudhury, MD · McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-01-31
Completion
2015-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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