No more hospital trips? video nutrition counseling tested for cancer weight loss
NCT ID NCT07606417
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study compares two ways of giving nutrition advice to cancer patients who have lost weight: video calls from home versus in-person hospital visits. Eighty adults with cancer and weight loss will receive personalized dietary counseling every two weeks for 12 weeks. The goal is to see if telemedicine works as well as standard care for helping patients maintain or gain weight, while saving them travel time and expense.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only — not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Telemedicine-delivered nutritional counseling (video calls via WhatsApp, Zoom, or Teams)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that remote nutrition counseling is a practical, cost-saving way to help cancer patients manage weight loss and improve quality of life without frequent hospital visits.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small pilot study (80 participants) in one hospital in Pakistan, so results may not apply broadly. The intervention is behavioral, not a drug, so benefits may be modest and depend on patient adherence.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Department of Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology, Mayo Hospital Lahore, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan.
Lahore, Punjab Province, 54000, Pakistan
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