University of Miami
The purpose of this research is to help researchers understand the barriers, supports, and preferences for prehabilitation. Prehabilitation in this study means head and neck cancer patients will receive nutritional counseling sessions and attend exercise programs before and during radiotherapy/chemoradiotherapy treatment.
Aim 2 Inclusion Criteria: Implement prehabilitation prescription protocol and evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the prehabilitation prescription protocol in a sample of HNC patients. 1. Age 18 to 80 years old 2. Patients with a diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma originating in the head and neck (oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, and nasopharynx). 3. Stage I-III or de novo Stage IV 4. Patients with a plan for radiation therapy (RT) / chemoradiation therapy (CRT) at SCCC\* - \*Patients who underwent surgery for the HNC are still eligible. 5. If this is a second primary…
Participants will be referred by their healthcare provider to an oncology nutritional counseling and exercise program administered standard of care by the Cancer Support Service at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Participants will be scheduled to the predetermined frequency and length of visits with oncology dietitians and exercise physiologists per the prehabilitation prescription protocol developed during the pre-implementation period.
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