Breast Cancer Patients: A Breast Cancer Rehabilitation and Exercise Laboratory

Nevada Cancer Institute

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Early Stage Breast Cancer (Stage 0-III)

Treatments: Other: Exercise Regimen

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01157130

NVCI 10-09

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study compares the outcomes of a physical activity intervention begun at diagnosis, continuing through active cancer treatment and into six months of survivorship compared to the outcomes of a control group receiving limited information on activity.

Full description

Patients (with stage 0 to stage III breast cancer)receiving chemotherapy, radiation or both chemotherapy and radiation will be included in the study.Randomization will be stratified by disease stage at diagnosis, treatment modalities planned, and hormonal status. Each patient will have a weekly goal of 2000 calories burned and 18 MET-hours of exercise which can be achieved in 4 to 7 hours of physical activity per week. Resistance training, using weight machines and aerobic training using treadmills, elliptical trainers and stationary bicycles, will be utilized in the intervention group. The control group will receive basic information on physical activity but not be instructed. Any physical activity in this group will be self-reported. Change in C-reactive protein will be the primary endpoint. Changes in other laboratory values, DEXA measurements, and quality of life measurements will be secondary endpoints.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Consent to participate in study
2. Women aged 18 and older
3. Stage 0 to III breast cancer prior to any treatment and at time of diagnosis
4. Requires treatment that includes chemotherapy, radiation therapy or both chemotherapy and radiation therapy
5. Adequate fitness to participate in a physical activity as assessed by the investigator
6. Willing and able to participate in a prescribed exercise program

Exclusion criteria

1. Metastatic breast cancer (Stage IV)
2. Initiation of treatment regimen prior to enrollment
3. Treatment for breast cancer not requiring chemotherapy or radiation therapy
4. Patients who are pregnant (negative urine pregnancy test required at baseline to determine eligibility in women of child bearing potential).
5. Currently lactating
6. Do not read, understand, or speak English

Eligible participants will not be included if they have:

1. known cardiac disease,
2. uncontrolled hypertension,
3. uncontrolled thyroid disease,
4. diabetes mellitus,
5. mental illness,
6. infection,
7. immune or endocrine abnormality,
8. body weight reduction I10% in past 6 months, and
9. positive exercise stress test.
10. Major surgery within last 6 months that requires exercise restriction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Each patient will have a weekly goal of 2000 calories burned and 18 MET-hours of exercise which can be achieved in 4 to 7 hours of physical activity per week. Resistance training, using weight machines and aerobic training using treadmills, elliptical trainers and stationary bicycles, will be utilized in the intervention group.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise Regimen

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive basic information on physical activity but not be instructed.