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Randomised Trial Evaluating the Benefit of a Fitness Tracker Based Workout During Radiotherapy


2020-08-01


2024-08-01


2025-08-01


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Study Overview

Randomised Trial Evaluating the Benefit of a Fitness Tracker Based Workout During Radiotherapy

Evaluation of the impact of an activity tracker based fitness programme on the Qualitiy of Life after oncological therapy.

This monocentric, three-arm, randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluates the effect of an activity tracker based exercise program in cancer patients on the Quality of life after oncological therapy. Quality of Life and the intensity of fatigue will be documented with the FACT-G total score of the FACIT Questionnaire six months after completion of radiotherapy.

  • Bronchial Carcinoma
  • Esophageal Carcinoma
  • Tumor of the Brain
  • Head and Neck Cancer
  • Pancreas Cancer
  • Sarcoma
  • Cervix Uteri Cancer
  • DEVICE: Fitness tracker based activity training for Arm A and B. Booklet "physical training, exercise and cancer" and an introduction about physical activity during cancer therapy for Arm A, B, C
  • OnkoFit II

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates Results Reporting Dates Study Record Updates

2020-08-13  

N/A  

2020-08-13  

2020-08-13  

N/A  

2020-08-18  

2020-08-18  

N/A  

2020-08  

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

Design Details

Primary Purpose:
Supportive Care


Allocation:
Randomized


Interventional Model:
Parallel


Masking:
None


Arms and Interventions

Participant Group/ArmIntervention/Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Arm A (Tracker/daily step-count suggestion)

Patients receive a fitness tracker, a booklet "Physical training, exercise and cancer" and an in-person briefing on physical activity during cancer therapy. We suggest a daily step-count which should improve the patients phyiscal activity during radiother

DEVICE: Fitness tracker based activity training for Arm A and B. Booklet "physical training, exercise and cancer" and an introduction about physical activity during cancer therapy for Arm A, B, C

  • Patients receive a fitness tracker, a booklet "Physical training, exercise and cancer" and an in-person briefing about physical activity during cancer therapy. With offered guidelines for the daily step counts patients should improve their physical activi
EXPERIMENTAL: Arm B (Tracker/no daily step-count suggestion)

Patients receive a fitness tracker, a booklet "Physical training, exercise and cancer" and an in-person briefing on physical activity during cancer therapy. The patients self-document their daily step count during radiotherapy, there will be no recommend

DEVICE: Fitness tracker based activity training for Arm A and B. Booklet "physical training, exercise and cancer" and an introduction about physical activity during cancer therapy for Arm A, B, C

  • Patients receive a fitness tracker, a booklet "Physical training, exercise and cancer" and an in-person briefing about physical activity during cancer therapy. With offered guidelines for the daily step counts patients should improve their physical activi
NO_INTERVENTION: Arm C (no activity tracker)

Patients receive a booklet "Physical training, exercise and cancer" and an in-person briefing on physical activity during cancer therapy. A fitness tracker will not be provided.

Primary Outcome MeasuresMeasure DescriptionTime Frame
Evaluation of the impact of an Activity tracker based Fitness programme on the Qualitiy of Life after oncological TherapyThis endpoint will be evaluated by the FACT-G (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General) total scores of the FACIT (Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy) questionnaire (physical well-being values 0-28, 28 worse outcome; social/family well-being values 0-28, 28 better outcome; emotional well-being values 0-24, 24 worse outcome; functional well-being values 0-28, 28 better outcome6 Months after completion of adjuvant radiotherapy
Secondary Outcome MeasuresMeasure DescriptionTime Frame

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Name: Cihan Gani, MD, PD

Phone Number: +49 (0) 7071 29

Email: cihan.gani@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Study Contact Backup

Name: Daniel Zips, MD, Prof.

Phone Number: +49 (0) 7071 29

Email: ro-info@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person’s general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:
ALL

Sexes Eligible for Study:
18 Years

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

    Inclusion Criteria:

  • Capacity for consent
  • Minimum age 18
  • Presence of one of the following tumor diseases: Bronchial Carcinoma, Esophageal Carcinoma, Tumor of the Brain, Head and Neck Cancer, Pancreas Cancer, Sarcoma Cervix Uteri Cancer
  • ECOG 0-2
  • Indication for a radiotherapy or a radiochemotherapy with an intended treatment time of minimum 4 weeks (definitive/adjuvant/neoadjuvant)

  • Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participation in any other interventional study
  • Radiotherapy of Breast cancer
  • Pregnancy
  • Contraindication against physical activity/sport and others
  • Severe cardiovascular pre-existing conditions (after myocardial infarction, apoplexy in the last 6 months, congestive heart failure NYHA > I°)
  • preexisting diseases with are relevantly accompanied by a limited mobility in patients (e.g. paraparesis of the lower limbs)
  • ECOG Status 3-4
  • prior use of activity trackers

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.


    • PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR: Cihan Gani, MD, PD, University Hospital Tübingen

    Publications

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    General Publications

    • Hauth F, Gehler B, Niess AM, Fischer K, Toepell A, Heinrich V, Roesel I, Peter A, Renovanz M, Hartkopf A, Stengel A, Zips D, Gani C. An Activity Tracker-Guided Physical Activity Program for Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy: Protocol for a Prospective Phase III Trial (OnkoFit I and II Trials). JMIR Res Protoc. 2021 Sep 22;10(9):e28524. doi: 10.2196/28524.