Physical Activity and Functioning in Palliative Cancer Patients - a Clinical Randomised Trial

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Physical exercise; Other: best supportive care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00397774

4.2006.2179

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project consists of two studies where we want to throw light on the importance of physical activity/exercise to maintain physical function among cancer patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. Study I is a randomised intervention study where we want to study the effect of adjusted physical exercise compared to usual care. In study II our main aim is to validate different subjective and objective methods to measure physical functioning

Enrollment: 231 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Palliative cancer patients,
• life expectancy between 3 and 12 months,
• Karnofsky status equally or above 60,
• pain score equal or below 3 on numerical rating scale (0-10),
• cognitive function intact

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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231 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise

Active Comparator group

Description:

Physical exercise twice a week for 8 weeks, and best supportive care

Treatment:

Other: best supportive care

Behavioral: Physical exercise

No exercise

Other group

Description:

Best supportive care, no exercise

Treatment:

Other: best supportive care