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A Study of Tongue Strength and Endurance Using the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) Tongue Strength Trainer in People With Oral Tongue Cance

RECRUITINGN/ASponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Actively Recruiting
PhaseN/A
SponsorMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Started2025-08-07
Est. completion2028-08-07
Eligibility
Age18 Years+
Healthy vol.Accepted
Locations7 sites
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NCT07124520

Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn more about tongue strength and endurance by using the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI). The IOPI is a device that measures tongue pressure.

Eligibility

Age: 18 Years+Healthy volunteers accepted
Inclusion Criteria:

* Age ≥18 years old
* Scheduled to undergo primary surgery for oral tongue cancer (glossectomy types 1 to 3) using any type of closure or reconstruction

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previous radiation therapy to the oral cavity or head and neck
* Previous surgery for oral cavity cancer
* Recurrent oral cavity cancer
* Surgical requirement of extension to involve bone (mandible resection)
* Subtotal or total glossectomy
* Feeding tube dependance prior to surgery

Conditions2

CancerTongue Cancer

Locations7 sites

Memorial Sloan Kettering at Basking Ridge (Consent only)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 07920
Louise Cunningham212-639-5856
Memoral Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Consent only)
Middletown, New Jersey, 07748
Louise Cunningham212-639-5856
Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Consent Only)
Montvale, New Jersey, 07645
Louise Cunningham212-639-5856
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk-Commack (Consent only)
Commack, New York, 11725
Louise Cunningham212-639-5856
Memoral Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent only)
Harrison, New York, 10604
Louise Cunningham212-639-5856

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