Exercise program for breast cancer
- Conditions
- Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitationBreast cancerCancer - Breast
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12623000973617
- Lead Sponsor
- Westmead Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Early-stage breast cancer patients will be eligible to participate if they are 18 years and over of age, receiving treatment for breast cancer at Westmead Hospital, able to participate in exercise sessions, able to provide consent, and have sufficient command of the English language or access to a health care interpreter to be able to complete questionnaire data.
Patients will be excluded if they: (1) have an absolute contraindication to physical activity as determined by their treating medical team; (2) are unable to commit to participating in the exercise program; (3) have significant cognitive impairment.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of life measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Breast (FACT-B)[Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months post-commencement of intervention]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Acceptability measured by the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM)[3 months post-commencement of intervention];Feasibility as measured by the Feasibility of Intervention measure (FIM)[3 months post-commencement of intervention];Appropriateness of intervention as measured by the Intervention appropriateness measure (IAM)[3 months post-commencement of intervention]