Clinical trialNCT05520866CompletedInterventional

PrehabPal: A Digital Tool to Help Older Adults Prepare for Cancer Surgery

SponsorUniversity of California, San FranciscoEnrollment132Colon Cancer

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Summary

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This is a multi-center, randomized trial investigating the use of PrehabPal web app versus a written surgery prehabilitation instructions among individuals aged 65 years and older preparing for colon cancer surgery. PrehabPal is a web app designed with, and for, older adults preparing for surgery at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). This app has the potential to fill a crucial clinical gap for older cancer patients by designing an individualized prehabilitation program and providing prehabilitation coaching.

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Investigators

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Emily Finlayson, MD, MS, FACS
University of California, San Francisco
Principal Investigator
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Sites

3 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Md Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 14 Mar 2023
Primary completion: 31 May 2026
Completion: 31 May 2026
Last update posted: 4 Jun 2026
Registered enrollment: 132
Registry id: NCT05520866

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.