NCT03292328

Yoga for Symptoms of Nerve Damage Caused by Chemotherapy

Yoga for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Breast and GYN Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 51 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer
• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Gynecologic Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Yoga	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.
OTHER	Wait List Control	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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-18
• Primary completion: 2020-09-15
• Completion: 2020-09-15
• First posted: 2017-09-25
• Last updated: 2025-05-13

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States