Many patients receiving radiation therapy for breast cancer experience fatigue although doctors do not fully understand why. The purpose of this study is to test if patients who experience fatigue during radiation treatment for breast cancer have changes in their capability to perform exercise on a treadmill.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
45
Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Consent only)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Consent only)
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Consent only)
Montvale, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack (Consent only)
fatigue measurement using the 13-item FACIT-fatigue scale
Fatigue will be assessed using the 13-item FACIT-fatigue scale for the assessment of fatigue in cancer patients.24 The FACIT-Fatigue is a validated questionnaire that was originally developed for the precise evaluation of fatigue levels in cancer patients with anemia. It consists of 13 questions using a 5 point scale (0=not at all; 1 = a little bit, 2 = somewhat, 3 = quite a bit and 4 = very much). It has been used frequently in the clinical trial setting (please see appendix 1). Responses to each question are added with equal weight to obtain a total score. The range of possible scores is 0-52, with 0 corresponding to the highest level of fatigue and 52 corresponding to the lowest level of fatigue.
Time frame: 1 year
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Commack, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent only)
Harrison, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Rockville Centre (Consent only)
Rockville Centre, New York, United States