An interventional study of Overcome in Breast Neoplasm Female, Neoplasm Metastasis and Spinal Neoplasms, sponsored by Universidad de Granada. Recruiting at 1 site in Spain. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-11-29.
Sponsored by Universidad de Granada · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The research to be carried out is aimed at patients with metastatic breast cancer, specifically bone metastases. These patients will be recruited from two hospitals in Granada, provided they meet the established inclusion criteria. With this study, it is pretend to demonstrate the benefits of a program of therapeutic exercise and functional recovery of motor control with ultrasound feedback for the improvement of the functional capacity of the women eligible to participate in the study, as well as a positive impact on the quality of life of the patients other than their survival. The effect of the Overcome program will be compared with the usual treatment in this type of pathology. To do this, a pre-intervention evaluation and another at the end of the evaluation of the variables to be measured, such as functional capacity, will be carried out. In addition other evaluation will be carried out, after 6 months to assess the long-term effects.
In addition to the three main variables such as functional capacity and quality of life, another relationship of secondary variables will be studied, such as physical state, body composition or pain threshold, among others. This study in its entirety will be carried out by the "Oncology Patient Support Unit - Take Care" in the hands of a multidisciplinary team, carrying out the intervention protocolized by physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
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This study's planned enrollment of 58 is above the median of 50 across 3,268 interventional studies indexed under Neoplasm Metastasis.
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Exclusion Criteria:
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Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.
The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
QT and QTc
On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.
The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Brain metastases
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
TIA (transient ischaemic attack)
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Three-month multimodal program. Aerobic exercise will be combined with the use of TRAG (AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill®), functional recovery of motor control with feedback ultrasound and occupational therapy.
Other: Overcome
Usual medical treatment for the same period of time
Multimodal program individualized and supervised 12 weeks duration (three months), with two sessions weekly face-to-face. This program will combine aerobic exercise in unloading through the use of the TRAG (AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill®), functional recovery of motor control with feedback ultrasound and occupational therapy. Physical activity will be measured in parallel with the test. Likewise, the patients will be monitored by means of a heart rate sensor.
Functional capacity
6-minute walking test
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Quality of life (QLQ)
QLQ-C30 (Quality of Life of Cancer Patients) by the "European organization for reseach and treatment of cáncer quality life" (EORTC). This scale has 30 items, divided into a global health scale, 5 function subscales and 9 items/symptom scales. The scoring is obtained from through an Excel template.
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
hand strength
Hand dynamometry, for which a digital dynamometer (TKK) 5101 Grip-D; Takey, Tokyo, Japan)
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Lower limb strength
sit-up text
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Body composition
Height will be measured (cm). Weight (kg), body mass index, skeletal muscle mass, and body fat percentage will be obtained using bioelectrical impedance analysis (InBody 720; Biospace, Seoul, South Korea)
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Muscle architecture of multifidus muscle
Muscle ultrasound and quantitative elastosonography will be performed of the multifidus muscle. We will obtain information in real time on the parameters related to the structural organization of the tissues (normal or abnormal elasticity) with respect to the adjacent tissue. of the multifidus muscle.
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Pain threshold on pressure, by algometry
Electronic algometer (Somedic AB, Farsta, Sweden)
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Anxiety and depression
"Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale" (HADS). Composed of two subscales: Depression and Anxiety, each with seven items. The score of each subscale can vary between 0 and 21, since each item presents four response options, ranging from absence/minimal presence = 0, to maximum presence = 3.
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Opioid consumption and pain
By the scale"Brief Pain Inventory-SF". This questionnaire consists of 15 items of which only two subscales are scored organized into mean pain intensity (items 3-6) and mean pain interference (items 9A-9G), the rest of the items do not score.
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Specific quality of life of the patient with bone metastasis
QLQ-BM22 (quality of life questionnaire for bone metastases) by the "European organization for reseach and treatment of cáncer quality life" (EORTC). This questionnaire consists of 22 questions, which represent eight sections on symptom scales: five identify the painful sites, and three describe the characteristics of the pain; 14 headings represent functional scales: eight, of functional interferences, and six, refer to psychosocial aspects.
Time frame: Participants will be followed over 14 weeks
Started Feb 2022 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2024, 28 months after the start.
Of 291 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Neoplasm Metastasis, half reached primary completion within 58 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 28 and three quarters within 93. This study's planned 28 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 316 studies reached it within 54 months; a quarter within 28 and three quarters within 91.
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