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Home-based Respiratory Muscle Training for Minimizing Side Effects in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Breast Cancer
Led by Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Updated on 2026-03-18
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
313 weeks
Total Duration
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What this Trial Is About
This clinical trial evaluates whether home-based respiratory muscle training is useful for minimizing side effects in patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Over-activation of the nervous system during breast cancer treatment can result in heart- and lung-related side effects which have the potential to reduce a patient's quality of life. Aerobic exercise can help prevent the development of these side effects. However, engaging in regular aerobic exercise may be difficult for breast cancer patients who are actively undergoing treatment. Respiratory muscle training (RMT) involves a series of breathing and other exercises that are performed to improve the function of the respiratory muscles through resistance and endurance training. Home-based RMT may represent a more feasible approach for reducing side effects in patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Home-based Respiratory Muscle Training for Minimizing Side Effects in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Breast Cancer
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Documented breast cancer and scheduled to receive adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- Age 18 years or older
- Cognitively able to follow directions and perform the intervention
- Able to speak, read, and comprehend English
- Understand and sign informed consent before any study procedures
You will not qualify if you...
- Uncontrolled illnesses such as active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina, cardiac arrhythmia, heart failure, or psychiatric/social conditions limiting compliance
- Prior radiation to the left chest wall
- Medical frailty as judged by clinical discretion
- Pregnant or nursing
- Unwilling or unable to follow study protocol
- Any condition making the participant unsuitable for the study intervention as determined by the investigator
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
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Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Number of Arms
2
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