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

NCT00397774 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 231

Last updated 2015-03-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physical exercise

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

OTHER

best supportive care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Line M Oldervoll, PhD · Department of Cancer Reserach and Molecular Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-10-31
Primary Completion
2009-06-30
Completion
2009-06-30

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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Diseases

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