Exercise boosts immunotherapy in lung cancer patients?
NCT ID NCT06026111
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Aug 11, 2026 · Updated 4 times
Summary
This study looks at whether 12 weeks of different exercise programs can help people with advanced lung cancer who are already receiving immunotherapy. The goal is to see if exercise is safe and doable, and if it can improve immune markers. About 30 adults with non-small cell lung cancer will take part.
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Study facts
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- 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 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Feb 2024
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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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: * Age ≥18 years. * Histologically diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). * Having been receiving immunotherapy for at least one month with a plan to continue for at least 12 weeks prospectively at the time of recruitment. * Medical clearance to perform exercise intervention and testing by their treating oncologist. * No uncontrolled medical conditions that could be exacerbated with exercise (e.g., uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes). * Ability to communicate and complete written forms in English. * Participate in less than or equal to 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic exercise per week over the past month. * Ability to understand and the willingness to sign informed consent prior to any study-related procedures. * Willing to travel to DFCI for necessary data collection. Exclusion Criteria: * Participate in more than 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic exercise per week over the past month. This study targets insufficiently active persons to assess the effect of the described exercise intervention, where additional exercise done regularly will contaminate the intervention outcomes. * Unstable comorbidities that prevent participation in moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise. Patients with unstable comorbidities may develop unexpected adverse events from exercise. For the purpose of patients' safety, as well as because part of this study involves remote, home-based exercise where close supervision is not possible, patients with unstable medical conditions are excluded. * Subjects who in the opinion of the investigator may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study. * Development of second malignancy (except for basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin) that requires concurrent treatment, which would interfere with this study.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
RECRUITINGBoston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
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