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The number of long-term cancer survivors is growing. As a result, treatment-related morbidity - such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, functional decline and fatigue - is impacting quality of life and impairing survival. Metabolic syndrome in the general population is currently treated with lifestyle advice to increase physical activity (PA) and reduce caloric intake. This approach is still underused as standard care for cancer survivors. The aim of this study is investigate whether a tailored PA program that starts early (during curative chemotherapy with cardiovascular toxic potential) is superior in terms of reducing long-term cancer-treatment-related metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular morbidity to a program that starts late (after completion of chemotherapy).


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Improved treatment is partly responsible for the increased survival and life expectancy in cancer patients. However, such treatment can be harmful as well, and cancer survivors therefore, face an increased risk of second malignancies and other chronic diseases, e.g. cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome. Due to the growing number of cancer patients and survivors, attention for rehabilitation, especially physical training, is growing. Several meta-analyses show the beneficial effects of physical training on several outcomes such as physical fitness, muscle strength, fatigue and quality of life, and a few studies showed the effect of exercise on physical active behaviour. However, studies on the effect of timing of exercise are lacking. The present study aims to insert a tailored physical activity program early versus late in the chemotherapy based cancer treatment and will yield data about its safety and efficacy. We hypothesize that a tailored physical activity program during early cancer treatment may more be effective to reduce long-term cancer treatment toxicities and morbidity in cancer survivors compared to a program after cancer treatment. Primary Objective: To investigate whether a tailored physical activity program that starts during chemotherapy (early) is superior in terms of physical fitness, as determined by VO2 peak at one year, to a program that starts after completion of chemotherapy (late). Secondary Objectives: To examine the effect of the physical activity program on muscle strength and activity level, change in metabolic and cardiovascular damage parameters, cardiovascular risk factors and quality of life including self-efficacy, motivation for exercise, and fatigue. Design: This protocol describes a multicenter, randomized study with 2 arms. Patients who will be treated with curative systemic chemotherapeutic treatment for testicular cancer, early colon cancer, early breast cancer or B-NHL will be randomized into an early or late PA program group. The early group will start the PA program during chemotherapy (for 12 weeks) until 12 weeks after completion of chemotherapy (total 24 weeks of training). The late group will start the same program (total of 12 weeks) after completion of chemotherapy. The longitudinal effects of the physical activity (PA) program for all participants will be evaluated at different time points in the UMCG: before start of chemotherapeutic treatment; at the start of the PA program and at 3, 6, 18 months after starting the PA program and 18 months after the last chemotherapy. ;


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NCT number NCT01642680
Study type Interventional
Source University Medical Center Groningen
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date January 24, 2013
Completion date October 22, 2020

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