The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, if any, exercise and a plant-based diet have on aromatase levels in postmenopausal women who are overweight and being treated with an aromatase inhibitor for their HR+ breast cancer. The study will also look at other ways diet and exercise may affect your body (for example, changing the way your breast tissue expresses or makes genes) and your quality of life.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
43
Exercise treatment will consist of individualized walking delivered up to 7 times weekly to achieve the patient-specific goal energy expenditure. Training sessions will be performed on a treadmill at under remote surveillance using a telemedicine approach (i.e.,TeleEx) established in the Exercise-Oncology (ExOnc) Service.
Pre-prepared meals, including 6 dinners and 6 lunches per week, will be shipped to the partipant's home during the intervention.
Treadmills and low-calorie recipes will be provided to patients in the counseling arm.
Nutrition program including regular counseling by exercise physiologists and registered dieticians (RDs).
Exercise capacity will be reassessed by a replication exercise test at week 6 in the intervention group only.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities)
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited Protocol Activities)
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities)
Montvale, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack (Limited Protocol Activities)
Commack, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Limited Protocol Activities)
Harrison, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited Protocol Activities)
Uniondale, New York, United States
change in breast aromatase levels
Will explore the data using descriptive statistics and graphical methods, such as summarizing the aromatase levels at baseline and at 24 weeks using means and medians and plotting the data to visualize changes over time. To compare the aromatase levels at 24 weeks post-intervention between the groups, an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) model will be used.
Time frame: 24 weeks post-intervention
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