NCT00813540

The Effects of Exercise Training on the Health-related Fitness of Colon Cancer Survivors

The Effects of Exercise Training on the Health-related Fitness of Colon Cancer Survivors: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: AHS Cancer Control Alberta · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Recent studies have suggested that individuals diagnosed with colon cancer who are inactive and/or overweight, may have poorer survival outcomes. Exercise training has been shown to improve fitness and body composition in other cancer survivor groups. The investigators hypothesize that an exercise training program will be a safe, feasible, and effective intervention to improve the fitness and body composition of a group of colon cancer survivors.

Conditions

• Colonic Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise Training	The exercise group will perform supervised stationary cycle ergometer exercise 3 times per week for 12 weeks and be progressed from 15 to 45 minutes and 60% to 110% of the power output obtained at V02peak. Resistance training will be completed twice per week and will include exercises for all major muscle groups. The training will progress from 60% to 80% of 1RM over the course of the intervention.
OTHER	Usual Care	Usual Care

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-03-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2008-12-23
• Last updated: 2016-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada