2017-2021

EXERCYST

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EXERCYST

The aim of this study is to improve the functional status of patients prior to radical cystectomy and improve patient outcomes following surgery.

TRIAL TITLE Exercise Medicine Prior to Open Radical Cystectomy: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy
CANCER TYPE Bladder
TRIAL STATUS Completed
PATIENT POPULATION People schedule to undergo radical cystectomy. Potential participants are those with muscle-invasive bladder cancer or high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer with atypical pathologic features who prefer upfront cystectomy, and those undertaking salvage cystectomy after failed curative intent treatment with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study was funded by the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group through the Below the Belt Research Fund