Interactive Gentle Yoga in Improving Quality of Life in Patients With Stage I-III Breast Cancer Undergoing Radiation Therapy
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Ductal Breast Carcinoma in Situ, Fatigue, Stage IA Breast Cancer, Stage IB Breast Cancer, Stage II Breast Cancer, Stage IIIA Breast Cancer, Stage IIIB Breast Cancer, Stage IIIC Breast Cancer
In brief
This pilot clinical trial studies interactive gentle yoga in improving quality of life in patients with stage I-III breast cancer undergoing radiation therapy. Interactive gentle yoga may improve the quality of life in patients with breast cancer undergoing radiation therapy.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02023008
- Run by
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- People needed
- 6
- Starts
- 2014-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-07-02
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Participants must be newly diagnosed with a histologically or cytologically confirmed breast cancer stage I-III (ductal carcinoma in situ [DCIS] is allowed)
- Participants must have a score >= 8 on the depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [HADS], indicating clinically significant depressive symptoms
- Participants must be:
- >= 2 weeks post-surgery for women who have had a lumpectomy, a lumpectomy with an axillary node dissection or a mastectomy without reconstruction OR
- >= 4 weeks post-surgery for women who have had mastectomy with reconstruction
- Participants must be scheduled to begin the standard 6-week course of radiation therapy (RT) within 4 weeks
- Participants must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2
- For the duration of RT, participants must have access to an existing broadband internet connection and a computer (laptop or desktop; tablets are not sufficient) with a full-sized computer screen and the following specifications:
- Windows® 8, RT, 7 Vista, XP or 2003 Server or Mac operating system (OS)® X 10.6 (Snow Leopard®) or newer
- Internet Explorer ® 7.0 or newer, Firefox® 4.0 or newer, Safari 3.0 or newer or Chrome or newer (available for free download)
- Participants must be able to understand written/spoken English since the yoga classes will be taught in English
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign an institutional review board (IRB)-approved written informed consent document
You may not qualify if…
- Participants who have practiced yoga regularly (defined as at least once per week on average) in the past 3 months
- Participants who have regularly (defined as 4 or more days per week) engaged in vigorous physical activity (i.e., causes heavy breathing, sweating, rapid fatigue; can be sustained for short periods, like running or swimming strongly) over the past 4 weeks
- Participants who are being treated with a shortened course of radiation therapy (i.e. "Canadian" fractionation less than 5 weeks, partial breast radiation therapy)
Where it is running
- Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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