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Resilience and Exercise in Advanced Cancer Treatment

NCT02680990 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2018-02-28

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Summary

This is a pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of, adherence to, and early efficacy of Band Together, a strength-training and walking program (intervention arm) vs. education on the benefits of exercise (control arm) in patients with aggressive gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies (gastric, gastroesophageal, and pancreatic cancer) undergoing neoadjuvant therapy.

Conditions

  • Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
  • Gastric Adenocarcinoma
  • Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Band Together

Band Together is a strength training program utilizing resistance bands with progressively increasing resistance, ranging from 3 to 35 pounds. Sessions are to be completed 3 times a week and involve 3 sets of 6 exercises: 1. chair stands, 2. chest press, 3. shoulder press, 4. arm curls, 5. pulls, and 6. calf raises. In addition, Band Together participants will be asked to work up to a walking goal of 10,000 additional steps per week.

OTHER

Exercise Education

Education will consist of counseling by the healthcare provider with supplemental handouts from the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Institute on Aging/ National Institutes of Health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amanda B Cooper, MD · Penn State College of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-12-31
Primary Completion
2017-07-31
Completion
2017-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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