EXCEL: Exercise for Cancer to Enhance Living Well

Summary

Project EXCEL will provide community or online exercise programs to rural and remote and under-served cancer survivors, as well as encourage participants to become life-long exercisers. Exercise is an evidence-based self-management strategy that benefits all cancer survivors. However, most cancer survivors who live in remote or rural places don't have adequate opportunities to be involved in exercise programs that are tailored to their needs.

Conditions

• Cancer
• Head and Neck Cancer
• Colon Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Cancer Caregivers

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Group Exercise Classes

The exercise program to be implemented for rural cancer survivors will combine aerobic, resistance, balance, and flexibility exercises delivered in a circuit-type class setting or group personal training format, twice weekly for a 12-week period. If public health restrictions require closure of fitness facilities due to COVID-19, the program will be delivered online. If facilities are open, the sessions will be integrated in the community, delivered in-person. Whether delivered in-class or remotely, the program follows exercise progression principles (ie, frequency, intensity, time, type, overload and progression) over the 12-weeks, with tailoring of any exercise to meet individual participant needs as required, in order to promote fitness and wellness benefits. The exercise intervention is based on the Alberta Cancer Exercise (ACE) program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Alberta

  collaborator OTHER

• Dalhousie University

  collaborator OTHER

• Alberta Health services

  collaborator OTHER

• University Health Network, Toronto

  collaborator OTHER

• Memorial University of Newfoundland

  collaborator OTHER

• University of British Columbia

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Prince Edward Island

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Calgary

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Nicole Culos-Reed, PhD · University of Calgary

• Margaret L McNeely, PhD · University of Alberta

• Melanie Keats, PhD · Dalhousie University

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

100 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-09-02

Primary Completion

2027-12-31

Completion

2027-12-31

Countries

• Canada

Study Locations