Exercise program aims to boost recovery after lung cancer surgery
NCT ID NCT07159646
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This pilot study will test whether a 6-month athletic program can improve lung function and quality of life in 10 patients who had surgery for non-small cell lung cancer. Participants will follow a supervised exercise plan and be compared to similar patients who did not exercise. The goal is to see if this approach helps recovery.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- athletic/physical protocol
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a structured exercise program to help lung cancer patients recover better after surgery.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very small pilot study with only 10 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. It is too early to know if the program truly improves lung function or quality of life.
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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 10 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Oct 2025
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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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: 1. Male and female ≥18 years old 2. Patient underwent a curative surgical treatment of NSCLC (stage IA according to AIOM guidelines, website https://www.iss.it/documents/20126/8403839/LG149\_Polmone\_agg2024.pdf/9e22916b-799c-3966-7dc9-01762112ce94?version=1.0\&t=1732534604319) 3. First whole body CT scan after surgery (executed according to routine procedures two months after surgery) negative for cancer recurrence 4. Patients highest scores of performance status, defined after multidisciplinary evaluation by Interdisciplinary Group for Tho-racic Neoplasms (GINT) using ECOG Performance Status Scale and Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). Subject with ECOG score 0 and CCI score from 1 to 4 is eligible. 5. Informed Consent as documented by signa-ture Exclusion Criteria: 1. Requirement of adjuvant treatment 2. Women who are pregnant or breast feeding 3. Intention to become pregnant during the course of the study, 4. Lack of safe contraception, defined as: Female participants of childbearing potential, not using and not willing to continue using a medically reliable method of contraception for the en-tire study duration, such as oral, injectable, or implantable contraceptives, or intrauterine contraceptive devices, or who are not using any other method considered sufficiently reliable by the investigator in individual cases. (Female participants who are surgically sterilised/hysterectomised or post- meno-pausal for longer than 2 years are not considered as being of child bearing potential) 5. Other clinically significant concomitant disease states (e.g., respiratory failure, COPD, interstitial lung disease, hepatic dysfunction, cardiovascular disease) 6. Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse, 7. Inability to follow the procedures of the study 8. Participation in another study with investigational asset within the 30 days preceding and during the present study 9. Enrolment of the investigator, his/her family members, em-ployees and other dependent persons
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia
Pavia, Pavia, 27100, Italy
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