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Can cachectic cancer patients manage intense resistance training?

Not Applicable
Conditions
C25
C34
Malignant neoplasm of pancreas
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung
Registration Number
DRKS00023216
Lead Sponsor
niklinik Köln, Centrum für Integrierte Onkologie, Klinik I für Innere Medizin
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting stopped after recruiting started
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
22
Inclusion Criteria

Pancreatic OR lung cancer +cachexia [>5% body weight loss in <6months] + active systemic cancer treatment

Exclusion Criteria

ECOG>2

Diseases impaireing exercise capability, such as:
- heart insufficiency [NYHA III-IV]
- Resperatory insuffiency [partial/global]
- permanent trompopenia CTC IV°
- coagulation disorders
- symptomatic coronary heart disease [stress ECG necessary]
- Heavy art. hypertension
- COPD in stage IV after GOLD
- Uncontrolled epilepsy
- Uncontrolled cerebral metastases

Medical or mental limitations that, in the investigator's judgment, prohibit participation in the trial or limit the ability to consent

Other participation in a exercise study

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Feasibility (Recruitment, Dropouts, Adverse Events, Compliance)
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Body composition (BIA), body weight, cachexia progress, cardiopulmonary exercise performance [spiroergometry], strength performance [1RM leg press, 1RM hand grip, 1min sit-to-stand test], ECOG, blood parameter [Albumin, creatinin, CRP, erytrocytes, leukocytes, thrombocytes, Creatinkinase]; patient-related outcomes via questionnaires: quality of life [EORTC-C30]; Fatigue [MFI20], physical acitivity [BSA]; Depression & anxiety [HADS]; cachexia [FAACT].
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