Diet and exercise may ease cancer treatment side effects
NCT ID NCT07160296
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether a 20-week program of nutrition counseling, home-based exercise, and wellness education can reduce side effects and improve quality of life in 30 adults with head and neck cancer undergoing chemoradiation. The program includes weekly group sessions with a dietitian, twice-weekly resistance exercises, daily walking, and stress management coaching. The main goal is to see if the program is feasible and acceptable during active treatment, 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
- 20-week lifestyle program (nutrition counseling, home-based exercise, wellness education)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a practical way to help head and neck cancer patients feel better and stay stronger during chemoradiation.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very small early study (30 people) focused on feasibility, not proof of benefit. The program may be too demanding during treatment, and results may not apply to all patients.
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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 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2025
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
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.
- 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: * Adults ≥18 years old with biopsy-confirmed squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck * Planned for definitive or adjuvant chemoRT * ECOG performance status 0-2 * Ability to participate in light-to-moderate physical activity * Able to provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Severe malnutrition requiring exclusive enteral feeding at baseline * Comorbidities that preclude safe participation in exercise * Cognitive or psychiatric conditions that impair study engagement
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Conrad Breast Center at South Meadows
RECRUITINGReno, Nevada, 89521, United States
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Renown Regional Medical Center
RECRUITINGReno, Nevada, 89502, United States
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