"Prescribing" Exercise to Cancer Patients At High-Risk for Falls

Mayo Clinic

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: Actigraph; Other: Perturbation Treadmill; Other: Pedometer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04236154

19-007775

NCI-2020-00367 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Falls are common and catastrophic in cancer patients. Cancer patients are vulnerable to falls due to muscle loss. In prescribing exercise in a data driven manner to cancer patients, our hypothesis is this "prescription" for exercise will eventually be demonstrated to reduce the occurrence of injurious falls.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any cancer diagnosis, as documented in medical record, other than non-melanoma skin cancer.
• No issues such as unstable angina or loss of a limb that would preclude exercise.

Exclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of non-melanoma skin cancer
• Unstable angina
• Loss of limb, which limits exercise capabilities at the discretion of the Principal Investigators
• Pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)