Pilot Study to Evaluate Targeted Physical Activity Among Pancreatic Cancer Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Recruiting · NCT07647250 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago
View the official record on ClinicalTrials.gov →Interventions studied
36-session targeted physical exercise program delivered twice weekly
What this trial is about
Patients with pancreatic cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy often experience functional decline, treatment interruptions, and clinical deterioration, and these risks may be amplified when frailty is present.
Who can take part
Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All (male and female)
Healthy volunteers
No - a diagnosis or condition is required
Phase
Not applicable (e.g. observational or device study)
Study type
Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment)
Inclusion criteria
- Age ≥18 years
- Diagnosis of pancreatic cancer that is potentially resectable per the treating clinical team's assessment.
- Planned to receive or actively receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to surgery.
- Frail or pre-frail as defined by the protocol-specified frailty assessment tool (e.g., Fried Frailty Phenotype; pre-frail = 1-2 criteria; frail =\> 3 criteria).
- Able to provide written informed consent.
- Medically appropriate to participate in supervised, symptom-limited exercise as determined by study screening and, if indicated, the treating clinician's input.
- Able to complete study assessments and questionnaires in English or Spanish (using IRB- approved instruments/materials).
Exclusion criteria
- Adults unable to consent.
- Medical condition that, in the judgment of the investigator and/or treating clinician, makes exercise unsafe (e.g., unstable angina, uncontrolled arrhythmia, decompensated heart failure, uncontrolled severe pulmonary disease).
- Any absolute contraindication to exercise participation/testing per institutional standards.
- Severe symptoms or functional impairment that prevents safe participation despite program modification.
- Inability to comply with the intervention schedule and study procedures despite reasonable scheduling accommodations.
Where it is running
1 location listed across 1 US state.
- University of Illinois Clinical Cancer Center - Chicago, Illinois, United States