Can a short rehab program before lung cancer surgery help patients get fitter and quit smoking?
NCT ID NCT06432972
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a short, pre-surgery rehab program for people who smoke and have a lung nodule that may be cancer. About 20 participants will do breathing exercises and get help to stop smoking. The goal is to see if this program is practical and can improve fitness, reduce symptoms, and lower surgery risks.
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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 20 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2024
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2026
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
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Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 years or older * Lung nodule that is deemed highly suspicious for lung cancer based on: nodule characteristics, risk factors, CT-PET avidity, previous biopsy results, and assessment by physicians specializing in lung cancers * Eligible for treatment * Current cigarette smoking ≥5 cigarettes per day * Willing to attempt smoking cessation during prehab period * Willing to take nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and varenicline * Able to attend PR at UVMMC for 2, one-hour sequential sessions for a total of 16 sessions over 8 days during treatment * Willing and able to provide informed consent; ability determined by study physician and/or LMDC treatment physicians Exclusion Criteria: * Unable to safely participate in PR due to unstable cardiac disease, unstable peripheral vascular disease, musculoskeletal disease that would prevent exercise, significant psychiatric or neurocognitive disease that would limit ability to exercise safely in a group setting as determined by the study physician and/or treatment physicians * Inability to consistently attend PR during treatment * Pregnancy, per patient self-report * Active or recent participation in another clinical trial that, in the opinion of the investigator would impact outcomes measured in this study * Any other condition in the opinion of the investigator/study physician and or treatment physicians that would jeopardize patient safety or integrity of research results
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Vermont Medical Center
RECRUITINGBurlington, Vermont, 05401, United States
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