Status:

TERMINATED

S0229, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Education w/wo Exercise Training in Improving Physical Function in Patients Who Are Undergoing Chemo & RT for Locally Advanced Lung Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

SWOG Cancer Research Network

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Lung Cancer

Pulmonary Complications

Eligibility:

All Genders

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Pulmonary rehabilitation education and exercise training may improve physical function and quality of life in patients who are receiving treatment for lung cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: * Compare improvement in physiologic function, in terms of exercise tolerance, in patients with inoperable locally advanced lung cancer undergoing chemoradiotherapy and randomized to pulm...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed single, primary bronchogenic lung cancer
  • Inoperable, locally advanced disease (unresectable stage IIIA OR stage IIIB disease)
  • The following histologies are eligible:
  • Adenocarcinoma
  • Large cell carcinoma
  • Squamous cell carcinoma
  • Non-lobar and non-diffuse bronchoalveolar carcinoma
  • Small cell lung cancer
  • Must have received chemotherapy (platinum based) and radiotherapy for locally advanced unresectable lung cancer
  • Must have achieved a complete response, partial response, or stable disease after treatment
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Age
  • Not specified
  • Performance status
  • Zubrod 0-2
  • Life expectancy
  • Not specified
  • Hematopoietic
  • Not specified
  • Hepatic
  • Not specified
  • Renal
  • Not specified
  • Cardiovascular
  • No acute EKG changes, arrhythmia, or other cardiac abnormality that would preclude study participation
  • No uncontrolled cardiac disease
  • No recent myocardial infarction
  • Pulmonary
  • Any FEV\_1 level by pulmonary function testing
  • Other
  • Willing to participate in 12-week long exercise program
  • Chemotherapy-induced neuropathy ≤ grade 2
  • No uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
  • No other medical condition that would preclude study participation
  • PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • Biologic therapy
  • Not specified
  • Chemotherapy
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Endocrine therapy
  • Not specified
  • Radiotherapy
  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Surgery
  • Not specified

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    September 1 2004

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    October 1 2008

    Estimated Enrollment :

    2 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00090961

    Start Date

    September 1 2004

    End Date

    October 1 2008

    Last Update

    November 1 2012

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    Poudre Valley Hospital

    Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, 80524

    2

    Decatur Memorial Hospital Cancer Care Institute

    Decatur, Illinois, United States, 62526

    3

    Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at Loyola University Medical Center

    Maywood, Illinois, United States, 60153

    4

    Regional Cancer Center at Memorial Medical Center

    Springfield, Illinois, United States, 62781-0001