Effect of Yoga on Life Quality and Immunity in Breast Cancer Patients After Operation and or Chemotherapy

Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Female Breast Carcinoma

Treatments: Behavioral: Yoga exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02243163

1020106

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of study is to investigate if yoga exercise improve life quality and immune status in breast cancer patients after complete treatment (including surgery and / or radiotherapy and / or chemotherapy)

Full description

It is well-known that exercise promote immune regulation for better life quality. However, the mechanism for better immunity and life quality is not clear. We postulate that Ayurveda yoga might benefit breast cancer women with completion of operation and/or chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The benefits could be due to immune modulation, and improve health perception and life quality, and even potential decrease of cancer relapse.

The study patients will do yoga twice a week for 12 weeks. The study primary endpoints are 1) to improve personal health perception, 2) to improve life quality and 3) to enhance human immunity. The study secondary endpoint will follow up the immunity changes 3 months after the intervention.

We anticipate to reach the primary endpoints and to publish the primary results in one year, the secondary endpoint will complete in the second year.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to attend yoga program weekly, and fill out inform consent.
• Patients with breast cancer after complete treatment for at least 3 months (including surgery and / or radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy).

Exclusion criteria

• male
• overweight
• unable to do yoga exercise.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 1 patient group

Yoga exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will receive regular 90-minutes yoga classes twice a week for 3 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga exercise