- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04621721
Home-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Taxane-Induced CIPN (B-HAPI)
This two-group, randomized control trial (RCT) will test the effects of a home-based, 16 week gait/balance training plus resistance (exercise bands) exercise program as compared to an educational cancer survivorship attention control condition to address persistent taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy in 312 patients treated for invasive breast cancer with taxanes at 1 year or more after completion of therapy. Assessments of lower extremity muscle strength, gait/balance, nerve conduction, neuropathy symptoms, and quality of life (QOL) will be performed.
The proposed exercise intervention addresses gait/balance impairments and motor (resistance) components of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy. The mechanism by which the intervention achieves the proposed outcomes is though 1) increasing endoneurial blood flow to peripheral nerves and mitochondria resulting in reduction in neuropathic symptoms (including pain) and clinical manifestations of peripheral neuropathy, while improving gait/balance in those with persistent neuropathy; 2) The subsequent increase in nutrient supply allows the mitochondria to function more efficiently, and may alleviate the neuropathic manifestations of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy. 15
This is the first study proposing to test the home-delivery of an exercise intervention specifically aimed at persistent (long-term) taxane-induced neuropathy. If successful, this study will provide the only evidence-based intervention for patients suffering from persistent neuropathy from neurotoxic chemotherapy. Additionally, the home-delivery format makes this intervention easily translated into clinical practice.
Specific Aims:
In a sample of patients who completed a taxane-containing chemotherapy regimen (> 1 year) for breast cancer and who have a persistent neuropathy (VAS score of > 3) the specific aims of this RCT are:
- To test the efficacy of a 16-week -delivered program of gait/balance training plus resistance exercise, compared to an educational attention control condition in increasing muscle strength, improving gait/balance and nerve conduction parameters, decreasing the severity of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy symptoms, and increasing quality of life.
- To evaluate for differences in muscle strength, gait/balance, sensory (sural) and motor (peroneal) nerve conduction, peripheral neuropathy symptoms, and quality of life (QOL) between patients who receive the exercise program, compared to those in an educational attention control condition controlling for age, BMI, taxane cycles and intervals, neuropathic pain, neuropathy/pain medications, current resistance exercise participation and falls/near falls experienced.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The use of taxanes in breast cancer chemotherapy regimens is considered standard first line therapy.1 However, taxanes are known to induce peripheral neuropathy, from 59-87% for paclitaxel and from 11-64% for docetaxel. 2-4 Sensory manifestations can include pain; numbness, tingling, & burning; diminished proprioception, and decreased vibration and touch sensation. 5-6 Motor symptoms such as lower extremity muscle weakness and impaired balance has been reported. 7 Currently, peripheral neuropathy remains a significant toxicity resulting in taxane chemotherapy dose reductions or discontinuation, with no evidence-based preventative or treatment strategies are available. 8 Taxanes induce sensory and motor neuropathy by inducing both mitochondrial and vascular dysfunction.9 In rodents, treatment with taxanes resulted in swollen, vacuolated axonal mitochondria that are functionally impaired, producing a chronic energy deficit.10 In addition, toxic effects to the endothelial cells of the vasa nervorum (small arterioles that supply peripheral nerves) in the dorsal root ganglia attenuates blood flow to neurons, resulting in endothelial cell death. 11 These findings suggest that both mitochondrial impairment and vascular damage are major mechanisms that underlie the development of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy, manifesting as sensory manifestations and neuropathic pain. 9-12
Mitochondrial and vascular dysfunctions lead to sensory loss and reduced muscle strength, functions dependent upon cellular mitochondria to generate energy in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate). Thus, mitochondrial dysfunction results in the loss of energy-generating capability, and vascular impairment deprives muscle and nerve cells of oxygen-rich nutrients, further impairing neuronal function. A limited number of human and animal studies have demonstrated that exercise stimulates endothelium-dependent vasodilation and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression, increasing endoneurial blood flow and energy generating capacity through mitochondrial protein synthesis and glycolysis, 13, 14
The proposed exercise intervention addresses gait/balance impairments and motor (resistance) components of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy. The mechanism by which the intervention achieves the proposed outcomes is though 1) increasing endoneurial blood flow to peripheral nerves and mitochondria resulting in reduction in neuropathic symptoms (including pain) and clinical manifestations of peripheral neuropathy, while improving gait/balance in those with persistent neuropathy; 2) The subsequent increase in nutrient supply allows the mitochondria to function more efficiently, and may alleviate the neuropathic manifestations of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy.
Specific Aims:
In a sample of patients who completed a taxane-containing chemotherapy regimen (> 1 year) for breast cancer and who have a persistent neuropathy (VAS score of > 3) the specific aims of this RCT are:
- To test the efficacy of a 16-week -delivered program of gait/balance training plus resistance exercise, compared to an educational attention control condition in increasing muscle strength, improving gait/balance and nerve conduction parameters, decreasing the severity of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy symptoms, and increasing quality of life.
- To evaluate for differences in muscle strength, gait/balance, sensory (sural) and motor (peroneal) nerve conduction, peripheral neuropathy symptoms, and quality of life (QOL) between patients who receive the exercise program, compared to those in an educational attention control condition controlling for age, BMI, taxane cycles and intervals, neuropathic pain, neuropathy/pain medications, current resistance exercise participation and falls/near falls experienced
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Constance Visovsky
- Phone Number: 8139743831
- Email: cvisovsk@usf.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Jillian Coury
- Phone Number: 8139745117
- Email: coury@usf.edu
Study Locations
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Florida
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Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
- Recruiting
- University of South Florida
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Contact:
- Jillian Coury
- Phone Number: 8139745117
- Email: coury@usf.edu
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Contact:
- Constance Visovsky
- Phone Number: 813-974-3831
- Email: cvisovsk@usf.edu
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Sub-Investigator:
- Ming Ji, PhD
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Sub-Investigator:
- Haladay Douglas, PhD
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Sub-Investigator:
- Teran Wodzinski Patricia, PhD
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Sub-Investigator:
- Vu Tuan, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Female breast cancer survivors (>21) with who completed treatment for invasive breast cancer with taxane-based chemotherapy, and who have a peripheral neuropathy score of > 3 by VAS rating consistent with studies of diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
Exclusion Criteria:
- any disease (e.g. diabetes, HIV) that results in peripheral neuropathy or muscle weakness (such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord tumors or injuries, stroke,); any disease that would preclude exercise (preexisting cardiopulmonary disease, bone metastasis). Individuals with symptomatic lymphedema or advanced disease at high risk for bone metastases and pathologic fracture will be excluded.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
- Allocation: RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: PARALLEL
- Masking: DOUBLE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: Intervention Group
The intervention will consist of a 16-week, home-based gait/balance training and progressive resistance exercises for lower extremities using resistance power bands.
Participants will be given the home-based gait/balance training and progressive resistance exercise training access via a link or by DVD, and the resistance training band, and wide, firm foam surface.
The intervention group will begin with light warm-up and stretching activity then a 10 minute each of gait/balance and 10 minutes of resistive (strength) training components.
The program begins with light stretching to address any range of motion limitations that may affect ability to maintain balance and postural stability, and consisted of hamstring quadricep, gastroc, and soleus stretches.
During stretching exercises, participants held each stretch for 10-15 seconds, repeating each stretch 2-3 times for each lower extremity.
Stretching exercises do not change during the intervention.
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Walking forward and back, walking with head motion, static standing, Standing Partial Tandem, Tandem Standing heel to toe, Standing with head turns Single leg stance and March in place.
Resistance exercises include: calf raises, lunges, supine leg curls and extensions.
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ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Attention Control Group
The Attention Control group will receive an educational intervention via a journal in which to record their clinic appointments, and standardized American Cancer Society pamphlets which have been adjusted to fit within the journal binding for easy reference.
At each data collection encounter, the intervention research assistant will discuss the information in each pamphlet, allowing time for questions related to the material.
The educational materials consist of 1) Emotions and Breast Cancer; 2) Body Image and Sexuality After Breast Cancer; 3) Follow up Care After Breast Cancer Treatment; 4) Nutrition and Cancer.
Sessions last approximately 45-60 minutes and occur at the same intervals as the intervention group and will precede data collection.
Attention Control group participants will receive telephone calls every other week which will entail a social visit and reminder of data collection/attention intervention appointments to further equalize contact.
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Walking forward and back, walking with head motion, static standing, Standing Partial Tandem, Tandem Standing heel to toe, Standing with head turns Single leg stance and March in place.
Resistance exercises include: calf raises, lunges, supine leg curls and extensions.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Gait Change
Time Frame: Change from Baseline to week 16
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Gait analysis will be performed using a GAITRite System with 3D motion capture with integrated force platform.
Gait variables to be used in analysis are ankle plantar/flexor torque
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Change from Baseline to week 16
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Balance Change
Time Frame: Change from Baseline to week 16
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Balance analysis will be performed using the Neurocom Balance Master Sensory Organization Test
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Change from Baseline to week 16
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Change in Lower Extremity Muscle Strength
Time Frame: Change from Baseline to week 16
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Isokinetic dynamometry (Biodex 3.0) Hip flexors, hip abductors, knee flexors, knee extensors, and ankle dorsiflexors will be tested
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Change from Baseline to week 16
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Change in Lower Extremity Nerve Conduction
Time Frame: Change from Baseline to week 16
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Nerve conduction studies of the sural & peroneal nerve action potentials will be tested by Dr. Vu, USF Department of Neurology.
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Change from Baseline to week 16
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Change in Neuropathy Symptoms
Time Frame: Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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FACT-Taxane Additional Concerns subscale53 Addresses symptoms specific to neuropathy.
Likert scale: 0 (not at all) - 4 (very much).
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Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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Neuropathy Quality of Life
Time Frame: Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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FACT-Taxane (version 4) 54 A total Quality of Life score can be obtained by summing the subscale scores and will be used for in the data analysis.
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Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Neuropathic Pain
Time Frame: Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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Brief Pain Inventory assesses severity of pain, impact of pain on daily function, location of pain, pain medications and amount of pain relief in the past 24 hours
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Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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Change in Body Mass Index
Time Frame: Change from Baseline to week16
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A portable Tanita Body Composition Analyzer will be used to obtain each participant's weight and body mass index (BMI) through bioelectrical impedance.
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Change from Baseline to week16
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Change in Neuropathy or Pain Medications
Time Frame: Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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Medications used for neuropathy pain will be monitored and documented throughout the study, and coded into drug classifications, and dosage change/no change tracked for analysis
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Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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Change in Falls or near falls in last month
Time Frame: Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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participant will self-report (yes/no) if they have fallen or had a near fall within the last month.
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Change over time from Baseline to 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, and 16 weeks
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Participant age
Time Frame: Baseline
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participant will provide their age by self-report
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Baseline
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Taxane cycles
Time Frame: Baseline
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Number of taxane cycles received and interval since last treatment will be collected.
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Baseline
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Publications and helpful links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ACTUAL)
Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ACTUAL)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- Pro00040035
- 1R01CA229681-01A1 (NIH)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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