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Exercising Our ABC's (African- American Breast Cancer Survivors)

NCT01684579 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: EARLY_PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 19

Last updated 2013-03-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Recent studies have shown that some behavioral factors such as physical activity and exercise may improve quality of life and outcome in patients with breast cancer as well as decrease body fat, increase lean mass and reduce cancer-promoting hormones. None of these studies have been performed in African-American women with breast cancer. The medical field needs to understand how exercise may benefit cancer patients, particularly African Americans, and how to optimize these benefits to improve the quality of life, prognosis and survival.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Resistance Exercise

Resistance exercise will be performed 2 days per week for 18 weeks. The resistance training protocol will follow the Resistance Training Strategies for Individuals With Cancer (RTSFIC). The goals will be to keep intensity levels low at the outset (having lighter weights and more reps) and progress slowly and safely. Training prescriptions will be modified based on the training level of the patients and their progress.

BEHAVIORAL

Aerobic Exercise

A 20-week aerobic walking exercise program will be developed for each participant based on results of initial exercise testing and prescribed to be done 5 or more days per week designed to progress from moderate exercise intensity, (50-70% maximum heart rate), to vigorous exercise intensity (75-85% maximum heart rate). Maximum heart rate (HR max) will be determined as the peak heart rate achieved during initial cardiopulmonary exercise screening. Heart rate during exercise will be monitored by participants using wrist monitors, already available through TREC Program. Patient progress will also be evaluated using a six minute walk test (6MWT), which will be conducted at TGP at baseline, 6, 12 and 18 weeks and, after completion of the intervention.

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral Group Counseling

The psychosocial component of the 20-week exercise program includes a 1 ½ hour support group offered prior to one of the weekly exercise classes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nathan Berger, MD · Case Medical Center, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-06-30
Primary Completion
2012-08-31
Completion
2013-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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