Clinical trialNCT01985945CompletedInterventional

Yoga for Breast Cancer

SponsorAbramson Cancer Center at Penn MedicineEnrollment70Women With Stage I or II Breast Cancer Undergoing Active Radiation Therapy

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Summary

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The purpose of this study is to examine the use of Eischens yoga for 8 weeks in one cohort of 20 women with stage I and II breast cancer receiving radiation therapy treatment, while a second cohort of the same type of and number of patients who, instead of yoga will receive standard supportive therapy, Questionnaire measuring cancer-related quality of life (FACT-G instrument) and fatigue (Brief Fatique Inventory) will be given to patients at several points.

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Investigators

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Gary Freedman, MD
Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Mar 2013
Primary completion: 31 Jul 2015
Completion: 31 Dec 2015
Last update posted: 11 Mar 2020
Registered enrollment: 70
Registry id: NCT01985945

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