SURfit

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

151 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-08-31

Study Completion Date

2019-03-31

Brief Summary

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Exercise can play a major role to mitigate or even prevent late effects in cancer survivors, such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, osteoporosis, fatigue, depression, reduced quality of life, mental health and physical performance.

The objective of this study is to assess the effect of an exercise program of 1 year on cardiovascular health, obesity and diabetes, osteoporosis, physical fitness, mental health and quality of life in childhood cancer survivors. The investigators will recruit childhood cancer survivors aged 16 years and above from three Swiss paediatric oncology clinics and randomize them into an intervention and a control group. The intervention group will be asked to increase physical activity for 1 year by at least 2.5 hours of intense physical activity weekly. Regular feedback will be given via a step counter, an online activity diary, and by the centre staff. The control group participants will keep their activity level constant. All participants will be seen after 3, 6 and 12 months to assess health and quality of life parameters over one year. After 1 year, the control group is offered to receive the same intervention to profit as well from an active lifestyle.

If the program shows to be effective, a complete package will become available to interested centres treating paediatric cancer patients in Switzerland to promote exercise in all survivors. The program will allow clinicians without previous experience in exercise counselling to improve the care of their patients.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Late-effects of Childhood Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention Group

Partially supervised exercise intervention: Survivors in the intervention group will be asked to add at least 2.5 hours of intense physical activities per week. These should include at least 30 min of strength building exercises and 2 hours of aerobic exercises per week. Exercise bouts lasting 20 min or longer will be counted with respect to total weekly training time.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

partially supervised exercise intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control Group

The control group will keep their physical activity level constant over the 1 year of the study. Thereafter, they will have the opportunity to receive the same intervention than the intervention group had received (off-trial) to benefit in the same way from an active lifestyle.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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partially supervised exercise intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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physical activity intervention

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Registered in the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry.
* Age at cancer diagnosis \<16 years.
* Diagnosed with a cancer classifiable within the International Classification of Childhood Cancer (ICCC-3) or diagnosed with a Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.
* Diagnosed and/or treated at the University Children's Hospital Basel, Cantonal Hospital of Aarau and/or Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne.
* Survived ≥5 years since primary cancer diagnosis or any subsequent cancer event (relapse or further cancer diagnoses)
* Age at the time of the study ≥16 years
* Informed Consent as documented by signature

* Inability to exercise
* Exercise potentially harmful
* Women who are pregnant or breast feeding
* Women who intend to become pregnant during the course of the study
* Instable clinical condition (eventually later re-enrolment)
* Under treatment for relapse or further cancer diagnoses
* Cardiac arrhythmias under exercise (during baseline assessment or by history)
* Diagnosis of diabetes \<3 months ago (eventually re-enrolment after 3 months if diabetes is under good control)
* Detection of a clinical condition that needs immediate treatment during baseline assessments (eventually re-enrolment after 3 months if in stable clinical condition)
* Planned relevant surgeries for the next 12 months
* Major musculoskeletal injuries, fractures \<2 months ago (eventually later re-enrolment)
* Recent change in medication that interfere with the parameters of the CVD risk score (primary outcome) \<1 month ago (eventually later re-enrolment)
* \>4 hours of reported vigorous activities per week
* Inability to follow the procedures and understand the intervention and assessments of the study e.g. due to cognitive impairment, language problems, psychological disorders etc.