NCT01900418

Physical Activity to Reduce Joint Pain During Aromatase Inhibitor Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 78 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 21 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

For post-menopausal women diagnosed with hormone-receptor positive breast cancer tumors, aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are the standard adjuvant hormone treatment to prolong disease-free survival and time-to-recurrence. Unfortunately, joint pain/stiffness/achiness (arthralgia) is a common side-effect of AIs. This "proof-of-concept" study explores how an evidence-based physical activity (PA) program- the Arthritis Foundation's Walk with Ease (WWE) program- can be adapted for breast cancer survivors on AI therapy to: 1) Help them maintain or achieve recommended levels of PA, 2) reduce their joint pain/stiffness/achiness, and 3) thereby enable them to remain on AI therapy as prescribed.

Conditions

• Joint Pain
• Breast Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Walk with Ease	An evidence-based walking program

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-10-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2013-07-16
• Last updated: 2016-08-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States