About this trial
Patients with pancreatic cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy often experience functional decline, treatment interruptions, and clinical deterioration, and these risks may be amplified when frailty is present.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Age ≥18 years
Diagnosis of pancreatic cancer that is potentially resectable per the treating clinical team's assessment.
Planned to receive or actively receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to surgery.
Frail or pre-frail as defined by the protocol-specified frailty assessment tool (e.g., Fried Frailty Phenotype; pre-frail = 1-2 criteria; frail => 3 criteria).
Disqualifiers
Adults unable to consent.
Medical condition that, in the judgment of the investigator and/or treating clinician, makes exercise unsafe (e.g., unstable angina, uncontrolled arrhythmia, decompensated heart failure, uncontrolled severe pulmonary disease).
Any absolute contraindication to exercise participation/testing per institutional standards.
Severe symptoms or functional impairment that prevents safe participation despite program modification.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- 36-session targeted physical exercise program delivered twice weekly