The Added Value of a Third Supervised Training Session to a Standard 12-week Rehabilitation Program After Breast Cancer: Pilot Study

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Other: extra session hydrotherapy; Other: standard 12-week rehabilitation program; Other: extra session ground exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05455385

s63338

Details and patient eligibility

About

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in women. A good rehabilitation program is essential for a good recovery after breast cancer, both physically and mentally. The aim of this study is to determine if there is an added value of a third supervised training session within a standard 12-week rehabilitation program to improve physical and mental functioning after breast cancer. The investigators also want to determine the added value of hydrotherapy as a third training session within a 12-week rehabilitation program compared to a third training session with ground exercises to improve physical and mental functioning after breast cancer.

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• men and women after surgery for breast cancer (mastectomy/breast-conserving and/or axillary gland resection/sentinel biopsy)
• possible (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy have been completed
• hormone and/or immunotherapy may still be ongoing

Exclusion criteria

• comorbidities that make hydrotherapy impossible, i.e. open wounds or allergy to chlorine
• oncological unstable disease
• terminal patients
• severe physical disabilities
• severe mental disabilities
• pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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62 participants in 3 patient groups

Control group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: standard 12-week rehabilitation program

Hydrotherapy group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: standard 12-week rehabilitation program

Other: extra session hydrotherapy

Ground exercise group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: standard 12-week rehabilitation program

Other: extra session ground exercises