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Nutritional supplementation and prehab for Biliary Tract Cancer

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Led By Prosanto Chaudhury, MD
Research Sponsored by McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
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Must have
* Subjects eligible to enter the prehabilitation program will include those aged 18 and above and referred electively for resection of malignancies.
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 8 and 1 week pre-operatively, 4 and 8 weeks post-operatively
Awards & highlights
No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

1. To determine whether a combined nutritional support program and exercise-based prehabilitation is superior to nutritional support alone in increasing functional recovery and reducing post-operative morbidity after surgery for HPB malignancy. 2. To understand which measures of immediate surgical recovery are sensitive to prehabilitation interventions and predict change in later outcome measures.

Eligible Conditions
  • Biliary Tract Cancer
  • Colorectal Cancer
  • Liver Cancer

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

You may be eligible if you check “Yes” for the criteria below

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~8 and 1 week pre-operatively, 4 and 8 weeks post-operatively
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 8 and 1 week pre-operatively, 4 and 8 weeks post-operatively for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

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Primary study objectives
Change in six minute walk test
Secondary study objectives
Depression and anxiety
Fatigue
Health-related quality of life (HRQL)
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Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group
All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Group I: Nutritional supplementation and prehabExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
The first group (pre-hab) will receive both nutritional supplementation and a prehabilitation program.
Group II: Prehab exerciseActive Control1 Intervention

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Who is running the clinical trial?

McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health CentreLead Sponsor
470 Previous Clinical Trials
166,897 Total Patients Enrolled
Prosanto Chaudhury, MDPrincipal InvestigatorMcGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
~5 spots leftby Nov 2025
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