The University of Tokyo Hospital 22nd Century Medical Center Obesity Metabolic Care (Social Collaboration Course) is a clinical trial "Randomized controlled trial on the preventive effect of exercise and nutritional intervention on sarcopenia during the perioperative period of gastric cancer" in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Lizap Co., Ltd. Announced that it will start in September 2017.
"Sarcopenia" is a decrease in skeletal muscle mass associated with aging, and has become one of the social issues that have been attracting attention in recent years.Therefore, the research team will start clinical trials to verify whether sarcopenia and postoperative complications can be prevented by performing exercise centered on muscle training and appropriate protein intake before and after gastric cancer surgery. And said.
The clinical trial to be conducted this time is a randomized controlled trial * for people aged 65 to 80 who undergo gastric cancer surgery at the University of Tokyo Hospital.Randomly assigns patients to undergo surgery as usual (control group) and to perform exercise training and supplemental nutritional food intake before and after surgery (test group), and analyze the presence or absence of postoperative sarcopenia, treatment progress, blood test findings, etc. And verify its validity.
Through this research, studying appropriate exercise and nutrition therapy for the elderly in Japan will lead to the provision of safe surgery and cancer treatment, and at the same time, it will greatly contribute to the maintenance and promotion of the health of the general elderly. It is considered to contribute.
* Randomized controlled trials are two groups of study subjects at random, with interventions such as the treatments they want to evaluate (test group), and the other with conventional treatments (control group). ), And one of the medical research methods to compare and verify the effects of each.
