NCT07159815

REACT - Resistance Exercise After Cancer Treatment

Comparing the Health Benefits of Digital Home-based Resistance Exercise and Supervised On-site Resistance Exercise in Cancer Patients After Treatment - a 12 Week RCT.

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Resistance exercise has been shown to improve several important health variables after cancer and cancer related treatment, but unfortunately the adherence to resistance exercise is low. Typical reported exercise barriers are inconvenient location (e.g. long distance from home), exercise at an unfavorable time of the day, inadequate access to cancer-specific exercise and insufficient recommendations from healthcare providers. Thus, there is need for more research on resistance exercise with an alternative approach in cancer rehabilitation, that potentially can target a broad range of patients, despite their domicile. In Norway, the foundation "Active against cancer" has established exercise locations tareting cancer patients in several hospitals, and today they also offer digital home-based exercise sessions. Therefore, the overall research objectives are to compare the efficacy of 12 weeks digital, home-based resistance exercise program on cancer patients after treatment on functional, mental, and metabolic health, compared to the same program conducted in a studio under guidance of an instructor. The primary aim is to compare the effect on exercise adherence between digital home-based exercise program and on-site guided program on cancer patients after treatment. Secondary aims are to compare the two groups on several functional health outcomes, mental health outcomes and metabolic health markers.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Digital follow-up	See the arm/group description.
OTHER	On-site follow-up	See the arm/group description.
BEHAVIORAL	Resistance exercise	See the arm/group description.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-01
• Primary completion: 2026-01-01
• Completion: 2028-06-30
• First posted: 2025-09-08
• Last updated: 2025-09-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway