A Nutritional Intervention and Physical Activity Program Reduce Body Weight in Women Newly Diagnosed With Breast Cancer.

Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz56 enrolled

Overview

To evaluate a nutritional intervention for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer on a weight control and physical activity program.

56 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer from the Department of Medical Oncology of La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. A nutritional and physical activity intervention program that consisted of two individual nutritional consults and five nutritional group lectures was conducted by physicians of the Nutrition Unit during one year.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Breast Cancer Body Weight Changes Weight Loss Nutrition Related Cancer

Interventions

Control groupBEHAVIORAL

A nutritional intervention program that consisted of two individual nutritional consults.

Nutrition and physical activity groupBEHAVIORAL

A nutritional and physical activity intervention program that consisted of two individual nutritional consults and five nutritional group lectures.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Years: ≥18 * Sex: Female * Newly diagnosed breast cáncer Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who have disseminated disease. * Associated eating behavior disorders. * Patients with dementia, mental illness or decreased cognitive function. * Consumption of drugs or substances to lose weight (except in those cases in which it is suspended 15 days before starting the study). * Presence of disease that may interfere with weight loss: severe psychiatric illness, uncontrolled hypothyroidism. * Pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Locations (1)

Institute for Health Research IdiPAZ

Madrid, Spain

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

To evaluate a nutritional intervention for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer 9 weight control and physical activity program.

To examine the frequency of food consumption

Time frame: Six months

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