Exercise and Radiotherapy, a Good Combination?

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Neoplasms

Treatments: Behavioral: exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01908023

2013/271

Details and patient eligibility

About

Every year, almost 3000 Norwegian women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Various symptoms of short-and long-term side effects may be experienced, such as physical deterioration, reduced quality of life and fatigue. At St.Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, all out-patients undergoing post operative radiotherapy are currently offered participation in group exercise training sessions. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate these out-patient group exercise sessions.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Surgery for breast cancer.
• Completed chemotherapy treatment.
• Radiotherapy is scheduled.

Exclusion criteria

• metastatic disease
• pregnancy
• drug abuse

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

exercise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: exercise