Lifestyle, Exercise, and Nutrition Study Early After Diagnosis

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Breast Neoplasms

In brief

The proposed study is a randomized trial evaluating the impact of a dietary and physical activity guidelines intervention vs. usual care on adherence to breast cancer treatments, body composition, and changes in biomarkers in 172 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer scheduled to receive neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03314688

Run by

Yale University

People needed

173

Starts

2018-01-02

Expected to finish

2023-06-20

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosed with Stage I-III breast cancer
• Scheduled to receive neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy
• Physically able to walk
• Able to complete forms, understand instructions and read intervention book in English
• Agrees to be randomly assigned to either intervention or usual care group

You may not qualify if…

• Women who have completed their 2nd chemotherapy
• Women already practicing dietary or physical activity guidelines
• Are pregnant or intending to become pregnant in the next year
• Recent (past year) stroke/myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure/ejection fraction < 40%
• Presence of dementia or major psychiatric disease
• Non-English speaking

Where it is running

• Yale University — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Dana Farber Cancer Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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