NCT07318220Recruiting
Prehabilitation Protocol for Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Optimizing Cancer Support Services Usage in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer During the Prehabilitation Period
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this research is to help researchers understand the barriers, supports, and preferences for prehabilitation. Prehabilitation in this study means head and neck cancer patients will receive nutritional counseling sessions and attend exercise programs before and during radiotherapy/chemoradiotherapy treatment.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 22 Dec 2025
- Start date
- 1 May 2026
- Primary completion date
- 30 Aug 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of Miami
- Diseases
- Head and neck cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07318220
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 60
- From 1 May 2026 to the primary completion date, 30 Aug 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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Criteria the registry did not label
- Aim 2 Inclusion Criteria: Implement prehabilitation prescription protocol and evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the prehabilitation prescription protocol in a sample of HNC patients.
- Age 18 to 80 years old
- Patients with a diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma originating in the head and neck (oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, and nasopharynx).
- Stage I-III or de novo Stage IV
- Patients with a plan for radiation therapy (RT) / chemoradiation therapy (CRT) at SCCC\* - \*Patients who underwent surgery for the HNC are still eligible.
- If this is a second primary squamous cell carcinoma originating in the head and neck, a patient is eligible if the last RT or CRT was completed more than 6 months ago.
- Clearance for exercise by the medical team.
- Patients who do not have their first treatment scheduled within 7 days at the time of recruitment.
- An English or Spanish speaker.
- Aim 2 Exclusion Criteria:
- A patient who cannot complete the baseline assessment and/or start prehabilitation by the initiation of RT/CRT.
- Any contraindication for diet change or exercising as determined by a physician.
- A patient who is not an English or Spanish speaker.
- History of dementia or major psychiatric disease which would interfere with study.
- History of recent (≤1 yr) stroke, myocardial infarction, or congestive heart failure
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) equal to or higher than 2.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Miami Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Recruiting |
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