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Weight Gain Prevention for Breast Cancer Survivors
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
First Received: September 19, 2007   Last Updated: July 30, 2009   History of Changes
Sponsors and Collaborators: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lance Armstrong Foundation
Information provided by: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00533338
  Purpose

Primary Objectives:

  • To test the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial of a weight gain prevention program for breast cancer survivors that combines exercise and dietary changes during treatment. Feasibility will be evaluated by examining data on recruitment rate, attendance at intervention sessions, drop-out rates in both study conditions, assessment completion rates, and participant feedback.
  • To test the effect of a weight gain prevention program, compared to usual care, on weight, body composition, and biomarkers related to breast cancer prognosis.
  • To explore whether changes in physical activity, energy intake, and resting energy expenditure predict weight gain among breast cancer survivors.
  • To test the effect of a weight gain prevention program on quality of life variables.

Condition Intervention
Breast Cancer
Behavioral: Weight Gain Prevention Program
Behavioral: Questionnaire

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title: Weight Gain Prevention for Breast Cancer Survivors

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Further study details as provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Weight or Percentage (%) Body Fat [ Time Frame: Six assessments: baseline, 3 months after starting chemotherapy, at the end of chemotherapy, after recovery from surgery, at the end of the 9-week booster intervention, and 6 months after surgery. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment: 60
Study Start Date: July 2007
Estimated Primary Completion Date: July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Weight Gain Prevention Program: Experimental Behavioral: Weight Gain Prevention Program
Intervention program including in-person instruction and counseling about exercise and diet, exercise practice sessions, and telephone counseling.
Behavioral: Questionnaire
Packet of questionnaires will be completed.
Standard Care Group: Active Comparator Behavioral: Questionnaire
Packet of questionnaires will be completed.

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  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Women with newly diagnosed stage II or III breast cancer.
  2. Over 18 years of age.
  3. Beginning neo-adjuvant chemotherapy at M.D. Anderson (no more than 3 weeks from the administration of the first cycle).
  4. Speaks and reads English.
  5. Oriented to person, place, and time.
  6. Able to come to M.D. Anderson once a week for intervention.
  7. Has physician clearance to engage in moderate physical activity.
  8. Lives in Harris County, Texas or a county contiguous to Harris County, Texas.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Have any of the following conditions defined by the American College of Sports Medicine as absolute contraindications to exercise testing (a recent significant change in the resting ECG suggesting significant ischemia; recent myocardial infarction (within 2 days) or acute cardiac event; unstable angina; uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias causing symptoms or hemodynamic compromise; severe symptomatic aortic stenosis; uncontrolled symptomatic heart failure; acute pulmonary embolus or pulmonary infarction; acute myocarditis or pericarditis; suspected or known dissecting aneurysm; acute infection).
  2. Have any of the following conditions as defined by the American College of Sports Medicine as relative contraindications to exercise testing (left main coronary stenosis; moderate stenotic valvular heart disease; electrolyte abnormalities; severe arterial hypertension at rest; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other forms of outflow tract obstruction; neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, or rheumatoid disorders that are exacerbated by exercise; high-degree atrioventricular block; ventricular aneurysm; uncontrolled metabolic disease; chronic infectious disease).
  3. Right or left bundle branch block.
  4. Baseline ST segment or T wave changes that would make monitoring of the ECG stress test indeterminate.
  5. Uncontrolled asthma.
  6. Have other medical contraindications as defined by the patient's physician.
  7. Have inflammatory breast cancer
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00533338

Locations
United States, Texas
U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
Sponsors and Collaborators
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lance Armstrong Foundation
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Karen Basen-Engquist, PhD U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Additional Information:
No publications provided

Responsible Party: U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ( Karen Basen-Engquist, PhD/Professor )
Study ID Numbers: 2005-0888
Study First Received: September 19, 2007
Last Updated: July 30, 2009
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00533338     History of Changes
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:
Breast Cancer
Cancer Survivors
Weight Gain Prevention
Diet
Exercise
Questionnaire
Survey

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Body Weight
Signs and Symptoms
Skin Diseases
Body Weight Changes
Breast Neoplasms
Weight Gain
Breast Diseases

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Body Weight
Signs and Symptoms
Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Skin Diseases
Body Weight Changes
Breast Neoplasms
Weight Gain
Breast Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 10, 2009