Engaging the older cancer patient; Patient Activation through Counseling Exercise and Mobilization – Pancreatic Biliary tract and Lung cancer (PACE-Mobil-PBL) - study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

摘要

BackgroundSeveral intervention studies have demonstrated that exercise training has beneficial effects among cancer patients. However, older cancer patients are underrepresented in clinical trials, and only few exercise-based studies have focused specifically on older patients with cancer. In particular, research investigating the effects of exercise training among older patients with advanced cancer is lacking. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of a 12-week multimodal and exercise-based intervention among older patients (≥65 years) with advanced pancreatic, biliary tract or lung cancer, who are treated with first-line palliative chemotherapy, immunotherapy or targeted therapy.