NCT07035600Not yet recruiting
Walking and Sitting Difficulties After Rectal Cancer Surgery
WASA - Walking and Sitting Difficulties After APE
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 Jun 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Earlier studies have shown that many patients (up to 30%) who have had a major surgery for rectal cancer, called a rectum amputation (where the entire rectum and anus are removed and the person gets a permanent stoma), still have trouble sitting and walking three years after the surgery. These problems are then seen as long-term or chronic. WASA is a randomized multicenter international study that will test a way to reduce these problems. It will start in fall 2025 and go on for 3.5 years. About 300 patients will take part. The patients will be randomly divided into two groups. One group will get guided online training twice a week, specially made for their needs. The other group will get information about the World Health Organization's (WHO) general advice on physical activity. The idea is that special training during the first year after surgery will reduce problems with walking and sitting. If the hypothesis can be confirmed, it could lead to an easy and low-cost way to help many rectal cancer patients feel and function better.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 300 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 8 Apr 2025
- Start date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Primary completion date
- 1 Oct 2029
- Lead sponsor
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital
- Diseases
- Colorectal cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07035600
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 300
- From 15 Sept 2025 to the primary completion date, 1 Oct 2029
- 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
- Patients with rectal cancer to be operated by extended abdominoperineal excision (ELAPE) requiring musculocutaneous or muscular flaps to be operated by Hartmann's procedure to be operated by anterior resection (low or high) participation in other randomized trials in conflict with the protocol and endpoints of the WASA trial Not understanding Swedish or Danish Patients reporting habit of physical activity exceeding the WHO-recommendations (150 min + two strength sessions) at baseline.
Who the study is looking for
- Patients with rectal cancer to be treated with/without neoadjuvant (chemo)radiation and abdominoperineal excision with or without mesh (APE/ELAPE) Informed consent Able to read and understand Swedish or Danish
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Surgery, SSORG - Scandinavian Surgical Outcomes Research Group, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, 416 85 Gothenburg, Sweden. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gothenburg | Sweden | Unknown status |
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