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Effect of Circuit Weight Training on Functional Capacity and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

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Cairo University (CU)

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Treatments

Other: Traditional physical therapy program
Other: Circuit weight training

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06936241
P.T.REC/012/005445

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is aimed at studying the effects of Circuit Weight Training (CWT) on functional capacity and quality of life in breast cancer patients.

Full description

Breast Cancer is the most common cancer among women in Egypt causing 22 percent of all cancer-related female deaths. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, accounting for nearly a quarter of all cancer cases globally.

With improvements in early detection, surgery, and adjuvant therapy for breast cancer, long-term survival and cure are becoming possible. Despite providing longer survival with early diagnosis of breast cancer, the treatment leaves sequelae with adverse effects such as influence on functional capacity, fatigue, depression, neuropathic lymphoedema, low immunity, and loss of flexibility. All of these effects end up affecting the quality of life (QoL), Imbalance, gait dysfunction, and falls may have particularly severe consequences in breast cancer survivors due to comorbidities increasing the risk of fall-related injury, secondary decline in physical activity, and subsequent functional decline.

Given the profound effects that imbalance, gait dysfunction, and falls have on functional independence, QOL, and long-term health and survivorship, the treatment or prevention of these symptoms is an essential component of cancer rehabilitation for all survivors.

Furthermore, the need for this study is developed from the lack of quantitative knowledge and information in the published studies about the effect of Circuit Weight Training (CWT) on functional capacity and quality of life in breast cancer patients.

Enrollment

52 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

35 to 45 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Female with age between 35-45.
  • Body Mass Index (BMI) < 25.
  • Patients diagnosed with non-metastatic (Stage 0-III) breast cancer.
  • All patients who are treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgery.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients diagnosed with cancer metastasis.
  • Patients diagnosed with diseases of the nervous system (Parkinson's disease, peripheral nerve palsy) skeletal system (inflammatory diseases, scoliosis >10 Cobb angle), or rheumatic diseases.
  • Patients with any current visual impairment that affected their daily living, vestibular disorder, neurological disorder, cognitive disorder, and any further medical condition that would prohibit them from participating safely.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

52 participants in 2 patient groups

Circuit weight training and traditional physical therapy program
Experimental group
Description:
The participants will do Circuit Weight Training in addition to traditional physical therapy program for 8 weeks
Treatment:
Other: Circuit weight training
Other: Traditional physical therapy program
Traditional physical therapy program
Active Comparator group
Description:
The participants will receive traditional physical therapy program only for 8 weeks
Treatment:
Other: Traditional physical therapy program

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Shimaa M Ali, PHD; Alhasnaa S Farouk, Master

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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