Can a phone app help cancer patients get back in shape?
NCT ID NCT06768918
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether digital exercise programs can help cancer patients during or after treatment. Researchers in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Poland, and Lithuania will enroll 300 people. The goal is to see if remote rehab is practical and acceptable, not yet to prove it works.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- remote physical rehabilitation (digital exercise program)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that digital rehab is a practical way to help cancer patients improve physical function and quality of life, especially those far from clinics.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early feasibility study, not a large effectiveness trial. It may reveal barriers like low digital literacy or internet access that limit its use.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 300 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2024
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Diagnosed with cancer (IDC: C00\* - C97\*) * Feasibility study 1 (early rehab): Participants should receive any systemic chemo/immunotherapy preferably (but not necessarily) with a duration of 8 weeks or more. Recruitment should be at earliest convenience preferably (but not necessarily) within 4 weeks of treatment initiation. * Feasibility study 2 (rehab@home): Participants should preferably have completed chemotherapy/immunotherapy no more than 6 months ago but may be receiving long-standing maintenance and life-prolonging chemo-/immunotherapy. Exclusion Criteria: \- Cognitively unable to give consent to, or participate in, a digital rehabilitation programme as judged by project team staff.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
5 sites in 5 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Klaipeda University
RECRUITINGKlaipėda, LT-92294, Lithuania
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Medical University of Gdansk
RECRUITINGGdansk, 80-210, Poland
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University Medical Center Rostock
RECRUITINGRostock, 18057, Germany
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Zealand Unievrsity Hospital
RECRUITINGNæstved, 4700, Denmark
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Ängelholm Hospital
RECRUITINGÄngelholm, 26281, Sweden
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