This randomized trial aims to assess if a well defined subgroup of breast cancer patients benefit from a controlled physical activity program. All patients will be screened for their physical ability to complete the interventional exercise program. Only patients capable and willing to take part in this study and meeting all inclusion and exclusion criteria will be randomized. All patients are to receive identical counseling for ideal nutritional, life-style and physical activity. Patients randomized to Arm 2 will additionally undergo a controlled and observed program of physical activity for a period of 6 months. Thereafter the patients are expected to adhere to a comparable, unobserved exercise program at home.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
80
Nutritional, lifestyle and sports counseling
counseling and controlled physical activity
Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin III mit Hämatologie, internistischer Onkologie, Infektologie, Rheumatologie und Onkologisches Zentrum
Salzburg, Austria
Individual maximum power output in watt (Pmax) on a bicycle ergometer after 6 months of controlled or unobserved physical activity.
Time frame: after 6 months
Determination of feasibility of achieving 12 MET/week (metabolic units) on an outpatient basis
Time frame: after 6 and 12 months
Evaluation of the influence of controlled/observed physical activity versus lifestyle counseling only on Fitness level, Quality of Life, rate of infections, weight, body mass index BMI, Body fat percentage
Time frame: after 6 and 12 months
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