The Effects of Exercise Training on the Health-related Fitness of Colon Cancer Survivors

AHS Cancer Control Alberta

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 3

Phase 2

Conditions

Colonic Neoplasms

Treatments

Behavioral: Exercise Training

Other: Usual Care

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00813540

G1-23950

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recent studies have suggested that individuals diagnosed with colon cancer who are inactive and/or overweight, may have poorer survival outcomes. Exercise training has been shown to improve fitness and body composition in other cancer survivor groups. The investigators hypothesize that an exercise training program will be a safe, feasible, and effective intervention to improve the fitness and body composition of a group of colon cancer survivors.

Enrollment

52 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Histologically confirmed Stage II or III colon cancer diagnosis
Less than or equal to 1 year since the completion of all adjuvant treatment
Negative Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) or completed Physical Activity Readiness Medical Examination (PARmed-X) form
18 years of age or older
Ability to understand and provide written informed consent in English
Willingness to be randomized
Willingness to complete outcome measures at each assessment time point
Available for the duration of study intervention period
Able to travel to our fitness centre 3/week for the study period

Exclusion criteria

Any absolute contraindication to to exercise testing or training
Evidence of active disease (metastatic, recurrent, or unresectable colon cancer)
Any uncontrolled medical condition or psychiatric illness that would prevent completion of the exercise program or interfere with the study assessments