Some types of chemotherapy used to treat breast cancer can cause damage to nerves with symptoms like tingling, numbness, muscle weakness, and pain in the hands and feet that can last and can affect functioning. The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of yoga on reducing symptoms caused by such nerve damage.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
51
Participants in the Yoga group will meet twice weekly for 8 weeks of classes taught by MSK yoga instructors. Each class will last for sixty minutes. In addition to these group classes, participants will utilize a home-based program on the days group classes are not held. The daily home practice will continue for four weeks after the group classes are finished.
Participants in the WLC group will continue usual care for twelve weeks before participating in Yoga classes for eight weeks. At the end of the twelve week follow-up, these subjects will receive eight weeks of group Yoga classes and the home Yoga practice recording. At week 20, they will complete a final follow-up visit.
Memoral Sloan Kettering Westchester
Harrison, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Change in treatment related peripheral neuropathy symptoms
Treatment related symptoms will be evaluated by using NCI CTCAE v4.0
Time frame: 8 weeks of the participants' most bothersome peripheral neuropathy symptom
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