NCT06430346Recruiting
Exercise Prehabilitation for Locoregional Esophageal Cancer
Exercise Prehabilitation for Locoregional Esophageal Cancer: A Pilot Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of the study is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of exercise "prehabilitation" for patients preparing for esophageal cancer resection (removal).
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 20 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 21 May 2024
- Start date
- 21 May 2024
- Primary completion date
- May 2027
- Lead sponsor
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
- Diseases
- Gastric and esophageal cancer
- NCT number
- NCT06430346
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 20
- From 21 May 2024 to the primary completion date, May 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Screen failure for exercise safety based on PAR-Q
- Underlying unstable cardiac or pulmonary disease or symptomatic cardiac disease
- Myopathic or rheumatologic disease that impacts physical function
Other
- Regular engagement in resistance training (2x/week targeting all major muscle groups)
- Recent fracture or acute musculoskeletal injury that precludes ability to participate in resistance training safely
- Numeric pain rating scale of 7 or more out of 10
Who the study is looking for
- Biopsy-proven locoregional esophageal cancer (LEC)
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2
- Treatment plan including neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy and surgical resection
- Ability to read and speak English
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moffitt Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Recruiting |
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