Resistance Exercise Combined With Protein Supplementation in People With Pancreatic Cancer: The RE-BUILD Trial
Pancreatic Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional screening trial for Pancreatic Cancer focused on measuring Pancreatic Cancer
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Non-metastatic pancreatic cancer patients initiating neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
- Over the age of 18 years; children under the age of 18 will be excluded due to rarity of disease.
- Speak English or Spanish.
- Able to provide physician clearance to participate in the exercise program.
- Able to initiate a supervised exercise program (free from any cardiovascular, respiratory or musculoskeletal disease or joint problems that preclude moderate physical activity).
- Currently participate in less than or equal to 60 minutes of structured moderate or vigorous exercise/week.
- Does not smoke (no smoking during previous 12 months).
- Willing to travel to DFCI for assessments.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients should not have any uncontrolled illness including ongoing or active infection, uncontrolled diabetes, hypertension or thyroid disease.
- Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents.
- Patients with other active malignancies are ineligible for this study.
- Patients with metastatic disease.
- History of any musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory or neurological diseases that preclude the participation in exercise.
- Patients expected to receive other cancer directed treatments during the study and assessment period.
- Participates in more than 60 minutes of structured moderate or vigorous exercise/week.
- Currently smokes.
- Subjects, who in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study.
- Is unable to travel to DFCI for assessments.
- Patients who are pregnant due to the unknown effects of exercise on the developing fetus.
Sites / Locations
- Dana Farber Cancer InstituteRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Experimental
Active Comparator
Resistance Training (RT) and Protein Supplementation (PS)
Resistance Training (RT)
Attention Control (AC)
Participants will be randomly assigned to the Resistance Training (RT) and Protein Supplementation (PS) group and receive virtually (Zoom) supervised home-based exercise program 3-days a week with daily protein supplementation for the duration of their chemotherapy with a maximum of 16-weeks of exercise. Exercises will be tailored to the participants' fitness levels. Sessions will last ~60 minutes including 5-minute warm-up and 5-minute cool-down. Participants will also have two body composition scans using CT over the span of chemotherapy treatment (maximum 16 weeks) and approximately 3 hours of evaluation of testing on 3 occasions.
Participants will be randomly assigned to the Resistance Training (RT) group and receive virtually (Zoom) supervised home-based exercise program 3-days a week. Exercises will be tailored to the participants' fitness levels. Participants will also have two body composition scans using CT over the span of chemotherapy treatment (maximum 16 weeks) and approximately 3 hours of evaluation of testing on 3 occasions.
Participants will be randomly assigned to the Attention Control (AC) group and receive instruction on a home-based, 3 days a week stretching program. Participants will also have two body composition scans using CT over the span of chemotherapy treatment (maximum 16 weeks) and approximately 3 hours of evaluation of testing on 3 occasions. The attention control group will be given the option to participate in the exercise intervention after their treatment is completed, with a cap of a 16-week period.