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CompletedNCT04824443Updated Oct 27, 2025

Exercise Therapy in Cancer Patients Who Are Recovering From COVID-19

A Phase 1 interventional study of Aerobic Exercise Therapy in Covid19, Coronavirus and Cancer, sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Completed at 7 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-10-27.

Sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
3
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a 30-week aerobic exercise therapy program in cancer patients recovering from COVID-19. The study will look at whether the aerobic exercise therapy causes few or mild side effects in participants. Aerobic exercise is physical activity that uses the large muscle groups (muscles in your legs, buttocks, back, and chest) and can be performed for several minutes at a time. The aerobic exercise therapy being used in this study will be a walking program that will be adjusted so it matches participant fitness levels (how much exercise you can handle).

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Conditions studied

  • Covid19
  • Coronavirus
  • Cancer

Keywords

  • Covid19
  • Coronavirus
  • Cancer
  • Exercise
  • 21-101
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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In context

COVID-19

7,640 studies on the registry are indexed under COVID-19; 488 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 3 is below the median of 100 across 4,099 interventional studies indexed under COVID-19.

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Lead sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 1,930 studies on the registry; 328 are open to participants now.

Of its 129 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 66 (51%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 18
  • Previously admitted to a hospital for Covid-19
  • Discharged from hospital for at least 30 days
  • Previously treated for cancer at MSK
  • Interval of ≥ 12 months but ≤ 10 years following completion of primary non-hormonal anti-cancer therapy (current endocrine therapy and maintenance therapy allowed)
  • Space to house a treadmill at personal residence
  • Cleared for exercise participation as per screening clearance via the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q+)
  • Performing less than 90 minutes of structured moderate-intensity or strenuous-intensity exercise per week, as evaluation by self-report
  • If a female of child-bearing potential, must not be pregnant or planning to become pregnant during the study.

    • Women \<50 years old who are of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 14 days of enrollment.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Currently receiving home oxygen after discharge
  • Enrollment onto any other interventional investigational study
  • Current treatment for any other diagnosis of invasive cancer of any kind
  • Distant metastatic malignancy of any kind
  • Receiving non-hormonal anticancer therapy
  • Any other condition or intercurrent illness that, in the opinion of the investigator, makes the subject a poor candidate for study participation
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
3 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Participants who were hospitalized for COVID-19

    Participants will be post-cancer treatment patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19.

    Other: Aerobic Exercise Therapy

Interventions

  • OtherAerobic Exercise Therapy

    Aerobic Exercise Therapy/AT will consist of 30 weeks of treadmill walking sessions. AT will consist of supervised, individualized walking delivered up to 6 times weekly (over a 7-day period) to achieve a cumulative total duration ranging from 90 mins/wk up to 375 mins/wk following a non-linear dosing schedule. The planned dose and scheduling of AT will be continually altered and progressed in conjunction with appropriate rest/recovery sessions across the entire intervention period (i.e., non-linear periodized schedule).

    Also known as: AT

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Frequency of serious adverse events during study-related assessments

    Safety will be evaluated by the frequency of serious (i.e., life-threatening, hospitalization, significant incapacity, important medical events) adverse events during study-related assessments and exercise sessions according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v5.0.

    Time frame: 30 weeks

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Study locations

7 sites
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities)
    Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920, United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited protocol activities)
    Middletown, New Jersey 07748, United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities)
    Montvale, New Jersey 07645, United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk - Commack (Limited Protocol Activities)
    Commack, New York 11725, United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Limited Protocol Activities)
    Harrison, New York 10604, United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)
    New York, New York 10065, United States
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited Protocol Activities)
    Uniondale, New York 11553, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Scott JM, Qiu Z, Rahman J, Moskowitz CS, Michalski MG, Lehman S, Lee CP, Harrison J, Yu AF, Marouf A, Vardhana S, Boutros PC, Jones LW. Case Report: Decentralized trial of tolerability-adapted exercise therapy after severe Covid-19. Front Immunol. 2025 Apr 3;16:1529385. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1529385. eCollection 2025. PubMed 40248705 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 27, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04824443
Lead sponsor
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 1, 2021
Start date
Mar 29, 2021
Primary completion
Oct 24, 2025
Completion
Oct 24, 2025
Last update
Oct 27, 2025

Study contacts

Jessica Scott, PhD
principal investigator · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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