Clinical trial · Interventional
Influence of a Home-based Nutrition and Exercise Program on Quality of Life of Palliative Cancer Outpatients
Influence of a Home-based Nutrition and Exercise Program Including an Application for Monitoring on Quality of Life in Palliative Cancer Outpatients
NCT04859400CI-TRIAL-00082404completedN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- 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)
The main purpose of the study is to investigate whether a tailor-made nutritional and exercise program including home-based sessions and regular monitoring using an application on the smartphone is effective in improving Quality of Life in patients with advanced lung or gastrointestinal tract cancer.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer, Gastrointestinal | Malignant Digestive System Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Cancer, Lung | Malignant Lung Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
| Malnutrition | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (3)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standardized exercise program | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Standardized nutritional program | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Whey protein supplement high in leucine and β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB) | Dietary Supplement | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention
- description
- standardized nutritional program including a nutritional supplement standardized exercise program app for monitoring.
- interventionNames
- Dietary Supplement: Whey protein supplement high in leucine and β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB)
- Behavioral: Standardized nutritional program
- Behavioral: Standardized exercise program
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control
- description
- standard of care limited version of the app (e.g. without the "help" function).
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- QoL
- timeFrame
- 3 Months
- description
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Advanced lung or gastrointestinal cancer patients not eligible for curative treatment * WHO performance status of ≤ 2 * Able to perform physical exercise estimated by the treating physician * Estimated life expectancy of ≥ 6 months * Patient must give written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Intake of supplements with high-dose branched-chain amino acids within one month * Enteral (except oral nutritional supplements) and/or parenteral nutrition within one month * History of ileus within previous month * Milk protein allergy * The patient cannot understand the trial-specific content due to linguistic, psychological or disease reasons * Age \< 18 years
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