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TerminatedNCT04072393

Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy for Thoracic Cancers

A Pilot Trial of Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy for Thoracic Cancers

Status
Terminated
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
24 (actual)
Sponsor
Washington University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Other than optimizing medical management of cardiac risk factors, and reducing radiotherapy (RT) dose to the heart, there currently exist no interventions to mitigate or reverse the adverse cardiac effects of RT. Aerobic exercise has been demonstrated to improve patient quality of life, cardiac outcomes, and cardiorespiratory fitness in patients with cancer receiving cardiotoxic systemic therapies, but the effects of aerobic exercise on patients at high risk for radiation induced heart disease (RIHD) is unknown. In addition, home-based cardiac rehabilitation has not been tested in patients with thoracic cancers.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDUREHome-based cardiac rehabilitation-Patients will be evaluated by the clinical team at The Heart Care Institute (HCI). They will receive a heart rate monitor, blood pressure monitor, and weight scale that they will take home with them. They will receive training on how to use the heart rate monitor and blood pressure monitor. They will receive training on how to record their exercises and weights in the teleHeart application by an exercise physiologist from HCI. Within 6 weeks of completion of standard of care radiation therapy or cytotoxic chemotherapy (whichever is last), they will be prescribed a course of home-based CR by a cardiologist at HCI and be instructed on the regimen by an exercise physiologist from HCI.

Timeline

Start date
2021-01-15
Primary completion
2024-05-15
Completion
2024-05-15
First posted
2019-08-28
Last updated
2024-07-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04072393. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.