A Nutritional Intervention and Physical Activity Program Reduce Body Weight in Women Newly Diagnosed With Breast Cancer.

Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz

Status

Completed

Conditions

Weight Loss

Breast Cancer

Nutrition Related Cancer

Body Weight Changes

Treatments

Behavioral: Nutrition and physical activity group

Behavioral: Control group

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04980118

HULP 3114

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate a nutritional intervention for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer on a weight control and physical activity program.

Full description

56 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer from the Department of Medical Oncology of La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.

A nutritional and physical activity intervention program that consisted of two individual nutritional consults and five nutritional group lectures was conducted by physicians of the Nutrition Unit during one year.

Enrollment

56 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Years: ≥18
Sex: Female
Newly diagnosed breast cáncer

Exclusion criteria

Patients who have disseminated disease.
Associated eating behavior disorders.
Patients with dementia, mental illness or decreased cognitive function.
Consumption of drugs or substances to lose weight (except in those cases in which it is suspended 15 days before starting the study).
Presence of disease that may interfere with weight loss: severe psychiatric illness, uncontrolled hypothyroidism.
Pregnant or breastfeeding women.