NutriCare Plus a Medically Tailored Meal Intervention Among Patients With Lung Cancer

The NutriCare study aims to develop, implement, and evaluate the efficacy of an innovative intervention strategy (medically tailored meals plus nutrition counseling) to integrate nutrition into the standard of care for oncology to improve outcomes of vulnerable patients with lung cancer. The NutriCare study evaluates the efficacy of the intervention on optimizing nutritional status, reducing treatment-related toxicities, and improving the quality of life of patients with lung cancer who are economically disadvantaged, uninsured, racial and ethnic minorities, elderly, and/or rural residents from four major medical centers in diverse regions of the United States (U.S.). There will be two cohorts for NutriCare with cohort 1 recruiting 150 patients completing an 8-month intervention and cohort 2 recruiting 120 patients completing a 6-month intervention.

NCT Number	NCT04986670
Lead Sponsor	Tufts University Collaborators: Fox Chase Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Tufts Medical Center
Conditions	Lung Cancer, Small Cell, Lung Cancer Metastatic, Lung Cancer Recurrent, Treatment Side Effects, Lung Cancer, Non-small Cell, Nutritional Imbalance
Enrollment	299 participants
Start Date	2020-11-24
Primary Completion	2024-12-31 (estimated)
Study Completion	2026-12-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2025-09-30