Improving Response to Chemotherapy by Adding Physical Exercise in the Neoadjuvant Setting of Breast Cancer Patients
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Breast Cancer
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
At a Glance
- Age
- 18 and older
- Sex
- Female
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Treatment
- Participants needed
- 86 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University Institute of Maia · Other
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About This Trial
One of the recommended treatments for breast cancer is neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT), however, only 20% of the patients subject to this therapy present pathologic complete response (pCR). If exercise-induced tumour size reductions observed in preclinical studies translates to humans, physical training could emerge as a way of increasing rates of pCR to NCT, which would be a valuable clinical achi…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. being female gender;
2. age equals or greater than 18 years old;
3. having a newly diagnosed histologically confirmed breast carcinoma IA-IIIC;
4. planned to receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy with anthracyclines or taxanes, that might be associated to anti-HER2 drugs;
5. being…
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