People with breast cancer often experience many short and long-term side effects as a result of both the cancer and the necessary treatments. Receiving extra assessments and care from teams of multiple health professionals has been shown to be helpful for people with other health problems, such as heart disease. These 'multidisciplinary' teams may include nurses, doctors, pharmacists, dietitians, exercise therapists, counselors, and other specialists. Currently, the investigators do not know if receiving extra assessments from a multidisciplinary team is helpful for people receiving cancer treatment. In this study, the investigators hope to learn the effect of extra assessments and early interventions from teams of health care professionals in people diagnosed with cancer, during and after the treatment period. After initial assessments, participants will be randomized to multidisciplinary team intervention or usual care.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
80
Intervention arm receives regular assessments and treatments from cardiology team, clinical nutrition, pharmacist, exercise physiologist and physiotherapist
Cross Cancer Institute
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
cardiac MRI
left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)
Time frame: change from baseline to 12 months
serum biomarkers
percent change in established biomarkers (troponin, BNP)
Time frame: change from baseline to 12 months
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