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A Seven-day Preoperative Exercise Training Program in People With Abdominal Cancer

NCT04114422 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2023-07-03

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Summary

Background: Preoperative exercise training programs of long duration, that delay surgical resection of tumors, may not be feasible in the treatment of malignant disease. In people with lung cancer, improvements in postoperative outcomes have been demonstrated with short duration (i.e. up to seven days) preoperative exercise training programs. However, the feasibility of short duration preoperative exercise training programs in people with abdominal cancer has not been investigated.

Objective: In people undergoing surgical resection for abdominal cancer, to investigate the effects of a seven-day preoperative exercise training program on preoperative exercise capacity and peripheral muscle strength as well as adherence rates, adverse events and subjective perception of satisfaction and discomfort of participants to the preoperative treatment.

Design: A feasibility study. Setting: Participants will be recruited from the surgical ward of a public hospital in São Paulo, Brazil.

Participants: 22 inpatients over 18 years old, awaiting surgical resection for colorectal, esophageal, gastric, hepatic or pancreatic cancer.

Intervention: The participants will undergo a seven-day, inpatient preoperative exercise training program that includes aerobic and resistance exercises.

Measurements: preoperative exercise capacity, peripheral muscle strength, adherence rates (consent rates, recruitment rates, completion rates and adherence), adverse events, the reasons for ineligibility and the reasons for declining participation and the subjective perception of satisfaction and discomfort of the participants to the preoperative treatment.

Conditions

  • Abdominal Cancer

Interventions

OTHER

Seven-day preoperative exercise training program

The preoperative exercise training program will be supervised by a physiotherapist and will comprise aerobic exercise on a treadmill as well as strengthening exercises for the upper and lower limbs. The protocol will include 7 daily sessions of 60 minutes in duration. The treadmill exercise will start with a 5-minute warm-up and will progress to 30 minutes of exercise with a speed corresponding to 70% of the maximum speed reached in the incremental shuttle walk test. It will finish with a 5-minute cool down period. Participants will also perform three strengthening exercises for the lower limbs (hip flexion, knee flexion and extension) and three for the upper limbs (shoulder flexion, elbow flexion and extension). The initial strengthening exercises intensity will be set at 60% of 1RM and will be progressively increased. Patients will perform 3 sets of 8 to 12 repetitions for each exercise.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Adriana Lunardi, PhD · Universidade Cidade de São Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-10-10
Primary Completion
2019-12-30
Completion
2019-12-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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