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WithdrawnNCT04505111Updated Apr 11, 2022

Prehabilitation Plus ERAS vs ERAS in Gynecological Surgery

An interventional study of Prehabilitation Program + Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Gynecologic Surgical Procedures and Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, sponsored by Instituto Brasileiro de Controle do Cancer. Withdrawn at 1 site in Brazil. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-04-11.

Sponsored by Instituto Brasileiro de Controle do Cancer · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was withdrawn
Modification of the protocolo, new version was created. No patients were enrolled.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

Prospective, interventionist, controlled and randomized study to test the effectiveness of multimodal prehabilitation protocol in patients who will undergo gynecological surgery.

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Prospective, interventionist and randomized controlled trial in a 1: 1 ratio, open to the multidisciplinary team but blind to surgeons and anaesthesiologists. The aim is to test the effectiveness of a multimodal prehabilitation protocol in patients with diagnosed or suspicious gynaecological cancer, who will undergo gynaecological surgery.

The multidisciplinary prehabilitation program will be applied to the intervention group. For the group participating in the prehabilitation and for the control group, the protocol and specific recommendations for gynecological cancer defined by the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) guidelines will be applied.

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Conditions studied

  • Gynecologic Surgical Procedures
  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

Keywords

  • Prehabilitation
  • Gynecological Cancer
  • ERAS - Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
  • Gynecologic Surgery
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In context

Lead sponsor

Instituto Brasileiro de Controle do Cancer is the lead sponsor of 12 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients who sign the Informed Consent Form, indicating that they understand the study procedures and their purpose;
  • Women aged between 18 and 80 years old;
  • Gynecological surgery performed by laparotomy;
  • Patients with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status of at least 2 (ECOG ≤2);
  • Preoperative schedule that allows prehabilitation intervention for 2 to 3 weeks

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients under 18 or older than 80 years old;
  • ECOG ≥3;
  • Significant comorbidities, such as: neurological or musculoskeletal disorder, heart disease and / or respiratory failure that prohibit physical exercise;
  • Limitation of locomotion preventing the patient to perform physical exercises;
  • Cognitive deterioration or patients with psychiatric disorder that prevents adherence to the program;
  • Emergency or urgency surgeries;
  • Surgeries by minimally invasive approach (laparoscopy or robotics);
  • Vulvectomy or soft tissue surgery without abdominal approach;
  • Minor gynaecological surgeries such as conizations;
  • Surgeries performed together with other specialties, in which the gynecology team is not primarily responsible for postoperative care;
  • Non-adherence of the patient in the intervention group to the preoperative prehabilitation program.
  • If surgery is performed 21 days after the last day of the prehabilitation program, for any reason
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Investigator)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Prehabilitation + Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

    Patients allocated to the intervention group will undergo prehabilitation protocol (nutrition + exercise + psychological counselling), with individualized monitoring by the multidisciplinary team.

    Other: Prehabilitation Program + Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

  • Active comparator
    Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

    Patients allocated to the control group will not undergo any pre-surgical intervention, except for preoperative counselling, already implicated in ERAS®.

    Other: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

Interventions

  • OtherPrehabilitation Program + Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

    Prehabilitation Program (nutrition + exercise + psychological counseling) + ERAS protocol

    Also known as: Prehabilitation + ERAS

  • OtherEnhanced Recovery After Surgery

    ERAS protocol

    Also known as: ERAS

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Postoperative recovery time

    Postoperative day patient is ready for discharge, defined as the day the patient has the ability to walk alone, take care of herself, and ingest at least 75% of the daily caloric needs

    Time frame: Up to 30 postoperative days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Complications

    Clavien-Dindo Classification, Grades I-V

    Time frame: Up to 30 postoperative days

  2. Readmissions

    Readmission to the Hospital Facilities

    Time frame: Up to 30 postoperative days

  3. Intensive Care Unit admission rates

    Postoperative Intensive Care Unit admission and stay

    Time frame: Up to 30 postoperative days

  4. Health-related Quality of Life

    European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30)

    Time frame: At Baseline, then at 30 and 60 days postoperatively

  5. Compliance to the ERAS® program guidelines

    Compliance to ERAS® protocol and implementation of the program

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 year

  6. Changes in anxiety and depression from baseline

    Changes in anxiety and depression will be examined using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Scores for each sub scale (depression and anxiety) are summed-up and range from 0 to 21. Values from 0-7 indicate normal levels, 8-10 are border values and values from 11-21 are considered to be pathological.

    Time frame: Baseline and postoperatively at 30 and 60 days

  7. Changes in functional capacity from baseline

    Patients will perform a 6-Minute Walk Test

    Time frame: Baseline and postoperatively at 30 and 60 days

  8. Change in muscle strength

    Muscle strength is measured by using an dynamometer

    Time frame: Baseline and postoperatively at 30 and 60 days

  9. Change in body mass

    Body mass is measured by using a bioelectrical impedance analysis

    Time frame: Baseline and postoperatively at 30 and 60 days

  10. Hospital stay

    Days from surgical procedure to hospital discharge

    Time frame: Up to 30 days

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Study locations

1 site
  • IBCC - Instituto Brasileiro de Controle do Cancer
    São Paulo, Sao Paulo 03102-002, Brazil
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References and documents

Publications

  • Gillis C, Li C, Lee L, Awasthi R, Augustin B, Gamsa A, Liberman AS, Stein B, Charlebois P, Feldman LS, Carli F. Prehabilitation versus rehabilitation: a randomized control trial in patients undergoing colorectal resection for cancer. Anesthesiology. 2014 Nov;121(5):937-47. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000393. PubMed 25076007 ↗
  • Santa Mina D, Clarke H, Ritvo P, Leung YW, Matthew AG, Katz J, Trachtenberg J, Alibhai SM. Effect of total-body prehabilitation on postoperative outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Physiotherapy. 2014 Sep;100(3):196-207. doi: 10.1016/j.physio.2013.08.008. Epub 2013 Nov 13. PubMed 24439570 ↗
  • Barberan-Garcia A, Ubre M, Roca J, Lacy AM, Burgos F, Risco R, Momblan D, Balust J, Blanco I, Martinez-Palli G. Personalised Prehabilitation in High-risk Patients Undergoing Elective Major Abdominal Surgery: A Randomized Blinded Controlled Trial. Ann Surg. 2018 Jan;267(1):50-56. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002293. PubMed 28489682 ↗
  • Nelson G, Altman AD, Nick A, Meyer LA, Ramirez PT, Achtari C, Antrobus J, Huang J, Scott M, Wijk L, Acheson N, Ljungqvist O, Dowdy SC. Guidelines for pre- and intra-operative care in gynecologic/oncology surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS(R)) Society recommendations--Part I. Gynecol Oncol. 2016 Feb;140(2):313-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2015.11.015. Epub 2015 Nov 18. No abstract available. PubMed 26603969 ↗
  • Nelson G, Altman AD, Nick A, Meyer LA, Ramirez PT, Achtari C, Antrobus J, Huang J, Scott M, Wijk L, Acheson N, Ljungqvist O, Dowdy SC. Guidelines for postoperative care in gynecologic/oncology surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS(R)) Society recommendations--Part II. Gynecol Oncol. 2016 Feb;140(2):323-32. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2015.12.019. Epub 2016 Jan 3. No abstract available. PubMed 26757238 ↗
  • Nelson G, Bakkum-Gamez J, Kalogera E, Glaser G, Altman A, Meyer LA, Taylor JS, Iniesta M, Lasala J, Mena G, Scott M, Gillis C, Elias K, Wijk L, Huang J, Nygren J, Ljungqvist O, Ramirez PT, Dowdy SC. Guidelines for perioperative care in gynecologic/oncology: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society recommendations-2019 update. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2019 May;29(4):651-668. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2019-000356. Epub 2019 Mar 15. PubMed 30877144 ↗
  • Lauretani F, Russo CR, Bandinelli S, Bartali B, Cavazzini C, Di Iorio A, Corsi AM, Rantanen T, Guralnik JM, Ferrucci L. Age-associated changes in skeletal muscles and their effect on mobility: an operational diagnosis of sarcopenia. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2003 Nov;95(5):1851-60. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00246.2003. PubMed 14555665 ↗
  • Iyer R, Gentry-Maharaj A, Nordin A, Burnell M, Liston R, Manchanda R, Das N, Desai R, Gornall R, Beardmore-Gray A, Nevin J, Hillaby K, Leeson S, Linder A, Lopes A, Meechan D, Mould T, Varkey S, Olaitan A, Rufford B, Ryan A, Shanbhag S, Thackeray A, Wood N, Reynolds K, Menon U. Predictors of complications in gynaecological oncological surgery: a prospective multicentre study (UKGOSOC-UK gynaecological oncology surgical outcomes and complications). Br J Cancer. 2015 Feb 3;112(3):475-84. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2014.630. Epub 2014 Dec 23. PubMed 25535730 ↗
  • Miralpeix E, Mancebo G, Gayete S, Corcoy M, Sole-Sedeno JM. Role and impact of multimodal prehabilitation for gynecologic oncology patients in an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2019 Oct;29(8):1235-1243. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2019-000597. Epub 2019 Aug 30. PubMed 31473663 ↗
  • Dindo D, Demartines N, Clavien PA. Classification of surgical complications: a new proposal with evaluation in a cohort of 6336 patients and results of a survey. Ann Surg. 2004 Aug;240(2):205-13. doi: 10.1097/01.sla.0000133083.54934.ae. PubMed 15273542 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — After publication of the results

Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Icf, Csr, Analytic code

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 11, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04505111
Lead sponsor
Instituto Brasileiro de Controle do Cancer
Responsible party
André Lopes (MD, Instituto Brasileiro de Controle do Cancer) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 10, 2020
Start date
Jul 23, 2020
Primary completion
Oct 1, 2020
Completion
Oct 1, 2020
Last update
Apr 11, 2022

Study contacts

Andre Lopes, MD
principal investigator · Doctor

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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