Clinical trial · Interventional
Effectiveness of a Physical Recovery Program for Head and Neck Cancer Patients (3C-CUIDATE)
3C-CUIDATE: Efectividad de un Programa de Recuperación Física en el Tratamiento de Las Secuelas Musculoesqueléticas, Funcionales y de Calidad de Vida en Pacientes de Cáncer de Cabeza y Cuello.
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
People receiving a head and neck cancer treatment often do not find an adequate therapeutic response for the side effects derived from this treatment. The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a physical recovery program based on manual therapy over these problems. Previous studies have shown the effectiveness of this type of programs on patients who have had cancer in other locations with clinically relevant results. There is a shortage of proposals for this subgroup of patients that require special attention. This project intends to carry out an experimental randomized controlled study with 84 patients treated of head and neck cancer who will be assigned randomly to the study groups: a) manual therapy program or, b) control group. The assessment refers to a baseline form (at the beginning of the study), at 6 weeks and at 6 months of patient follow-up.
Conditions
Conditions (3)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dysfunction | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Head and Neck Cancer | Malignant Head and Neck Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Pain | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual therapy | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Manual Therapy
- description
- Manual Therapy-based intervention
- interventionNames
- Other: Manual therapy
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control
- description
- Patients waiting list
Primary outcomes (5)
- measure
- Health-related quality of life
- timeFrame
- 6 weeks
- description
- Questionnaire EORTC QLQ-C30 was used for measuring quality of life
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 75 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * To have ended their treatment in the previous 6-24 months * To have no metastasis or active cancer * To have cervical and/or temporomandibular joint pain \>3 in a Visual Analogue Scale Exclusion Criteria: * Mental or physical illness preventing subjects from participating in the study * Previous chronic pain conditions * Previous cervical or temporomandibular joint pain * Previous dysphagia disorders
References
Publications (11)
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