Exercise Program of Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy With or Without Radiation

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Other: standardized regimen of exercises, including a warm-up period, ROM arm exercises, and strength training exercises.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01157767

10-062

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to study if a patients follows an exercise program specifically designed for them during the time of their treatment after surgery. Their ability to follow the program and its influence on their weight maintenance and early post-operative lymphedema rates will also be studied. Lymphedema is a condition in which excess fluid collects in tissue and causes swelling of the arm(s).

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients will be eligible if they have any of the following surgical procedures performed by an attending on the Breast Service:

SLNB alone Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) alone Total Mastectomy TM (+/- reconstruction) with SLNB or ALND Breast conserving therapy (BCT) with SLNB or ALND

• Age > 18 years
• Planned to undergo adjuvant post-operative chemotherapy with or without radiation at MSKCC and have not yet started chemotherapy

Exclusion criteria

• Undergoing TM or BCT without SLNB
• Having had prior breast cancer treated with surgery
• Unable to participate in a exercise program related to other medical problems
• More than 8 weeks post surgery.
• Having a concurrent cancer in addition to breast cancer
• Who have had any type of chemotherapy in the past two years

Trial design

90 participants in 1 patient group

breast pts who have undergone surgery

Description:

This will be a feasibility study designed to evaluate the compliance of an at-home, directed exercise program and its influence on physical measures during post-operative adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation (if applicable).

Treatment:

Other: standardized regimen of exercises, including a warm-up period, ROM arm exercises, and strength training exercises.