Status:

RECRUITING

Improving Response to Chemotherapy by Adding Physical Exercise in the Neoadjuvant Setting of Breast Cancer Patients

Lead Sponsor:

University Institute of Maia

Collaborating Sponsors:

Aveiro University

Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho

Conditions:

Breast Cancer

Eligibility:

FEMALE

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

One of the recommended treatments for breast cancer is neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT), however, only 20% of the patients subject to this therapy present pathologic complete response (pCR). If exercise...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • being female gender;
  • age equals or greater than 18 years old;
  • having a newly diagnosed histologically confirmed breast carcinoma IA-IIIC;
  • planned to receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy with anthracyclines or taxanes, that might be associated to anti-HER2 drugs;
  • being followed by the oncology department of the CHVNG/E;
  • medical oncologists consents the practice of physical exercise;
  • the patient is capable of providing written informed consent;
  • the participant accepts to be allocated to the control or experimental group, according to the randomization.

Exclusion

  • previous cancer diagnostic;
  • evidence of synchronous oncologic disease;
  • physical or psychiatric contraindication to the practice of physical exercise.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 31 2023

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

August 1 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

86 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT05976815

Start Date

July 31 2023

End Date

August 1 2026

Last Update

March 26 2025

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Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova Gaia e Espinho

Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Portugal, 4434-502