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SOPHIE Trial: Surgery in Ovarian Cancer With PreHabilitation In ERAS

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Interventions
Other: Multimodal Prehabilitation
Registration Number
NCT04862325
Lead Sponsor
Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Brief Summary

The treatment of choice in advanced ovarian cancer is a cytoreductive surgery combined with chemotherapeutic treatment. This complex and aggressive surgery is associated with high postoperative complication rates that may result in a strong negative impact on the clinical results due to the delay with the start of adjuvant chemotherapy as well as the costs from the surgical process. Multimodal prehabilitation has emerged as an innovative intervention that focuses on optimizing physiological and psychological resilience to withstand the upcoming stress of surgery. It has been shown to reduce postoperative complications in major abdominal surgery, but has not been assessed yet in abdominal onco-gynecological surgery.

Detailed Description

Main objective: To determine the efficacy of multimodal prehabilitation in decreasing postoperative complications in patients undergoing gynecological cancer surgery of high complexity by laparotomy (primary cytoreductive surgery, interval surgery and secondary cytoreductive surgery in advanced ovarian cancer).

Design: Multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial. Subjects: 146 patients: 73 in the intervention group and 73 in the control group.

Intervention group: PreHAB intervention consists on:

1. High-intensity endurance exercise training program and physical activity promotion remotely controlled with ICT (information and communications technologies).

2. Nutritional counselling to achieve protein intake of 1.5-1.8 g/kg and whey protein supplements.

3. Psychological coping. Control group will receive standard preoperative care. Both groups will receive perioperative care in accordance with the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) guidelines.

Measures: Aerobic capacity (incremental stress test), physical activity, operative complications and hospital length and associated costs.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
146
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Patients with advanced ovarian cancer subject to primary debulking surgery or interval surgery after 3-4 cycles of chemotherapy or secondary and / or tertiary debulking surgery .
  2. Patients with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 2-0.
  3. Adherence of at least 75 % of the program or minimum of 6 sessions.
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Surgery without a minimum of 3 weeks of prehabilitation time.
  2. Unstable respiratory or heart disease.
  3. Locomotor or cognitive limitations that makes not feasible the adherence to the program.
  4. Refusal of the patient.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Multimodal prehabilitationMultimodal PrehabilitationPatients following the standard preoperative policies of our institution and the multimodal prehabilitation program
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Incidence of postoperative complications30 days

Any deviation from the normal postoperative course and according its severity to the Clavien-Dindo classification, will be considered a complication.

A comprehensive complication index (CCI) scale will be used which assigns a value to each Clavein-Dindo level so a weighted average of the severity of complications can be calculated not only in a qualitatively way, but also numerically.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Preoperative and postoperative aerobic capacitybaseline, 1 and 3 month post intervention

Maximum production of carbon dioxide in ml/min during high intensity cardiopulmonar exercise.

Hospital and ICU (intensive care unit) length of staypostoperative 30 days
Health Related Quality of Life assesed by EORTC QLC-C30Baseline and 1 month postoperative
Overall and disease-free survival of the study groups5 years
Compliance to the ERAS program.postoperative 30 days

Percentage of items of ERAS program that were completed. Key aspects of this protocol include prevention of prolonged fasting allowing oral intake of clear fluids up to 2 hours before induction of anaesthesia, carbohydrate loading, avoidance of mechanical bowel preparation except if a bowel resection is scheduled, thromboprophylaxis; pre-, intra-, and post-operative euvolemia via goal directed fluid therapy, maintenance of normothermia, intraoperative and postoperative opioid-sparing multi-modal analgesia, avoidance the use of surgical drains, early removal of the urine catheter, and an emphasis on early ambulation and feeding.

Interval of days between surgery and the start of chemotherapyFrom date of surgery up to 6 months
Cost-effectivenessBaseline up to 30 days after surgery

Cost of treatment in the hospital in Euros including prehabilitation and postoperative recovery.

Incidence of cognitive deficitBaseline and 1 month postoperative

Cognitive assessment based on validated neuropsychological test: T @ M (; Digits WAIS III (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition)

Nutritional statusBaseline and 1 month postoperative

GLIM (includes hand-grip)

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Hospital Clinic Barcelona

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Barcelona, Spain

Biomedical Research Institute la Fe

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Valencia, Spain

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