A Study on the Effects of Exercise Therapy on Signs of Prostate Cancer

June 2, 2026 updated by: City of Hope Medical Center

Phase 2 Trial of Exercise Therapy on Markers of Progression in Localized Prostate Cancer

To determine the effects of exercise therapy on molecular, radiologic, and pathologic nimbosus hallmarks versus usual care control in men on Active Surveillance for localized prostate cancer.

Study Overview

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of exercise therapy on indicators of prostate cancer in people with low-risk prostate cancer who are on active surveillance. The exercise therapy in this study will be regular home-based walking sessions on a treadmill, and that therapy will be assigned by an exercise physiologist (a medical professional who studies how exercise affects the human body). Some participants in this study will have the assigned exercise therapy, and some participants will participate in their usual exercise routines. Researchers will compare how the assigned exercise therapy and the usual exercise routines affect indicators of prostate cancer in participants. This study will not provide treatment for prostate cancer.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

36

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • Duarte, California, United States, 91010
        • City of Hope Medical Center
      • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095-1781
        • University of California, Los Angeles (Data and Specimen Analysis Only)
    • Connecticut
      • Hartford, Connecticut, United States, 06102
        • Hartford Healthcare Alliance (Data collection only)
    • New Jersey
      • Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States, 07920
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities)
      • Middletown, New Jersey, United States, 07748
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited Protocol Activities)
      • Montvale, New Jersey, United States, 07645
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities)
    • New York
      • Commack, New York, United States, 11725
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk - Commack (Limited Protocol Activities)
      • Harrison, New York, United States, 10604
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Limited Protocol Activities)
      • New York, New York, United States, 10065
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)
      • Rockville Centre, New York, United States, 11553
        • Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited protocol activites)

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age ≥ 18
  • Men with histologically confirmed localized prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance.
  • Inactive, defined as not meeting the national exercise guidelines for cancer patients (<150 minutes/week of moderate or vigorous exercise)43 as assessed by remote activity and heart rate tracking for a 7-day period prior to study entry (general physical activity screening assessment via smart watch).
  • Screening clearance by an MSK Exercise Physiologist (i.e., review of ECG)
  • BMI <40 kg/m^2
  • Cleared for exercise participation as per pre-screening clearance via the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q+) (Appendix B)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Enrollment in any other program that may alter the impact of exercise on tumor outcomes (e.g., weight loss program)
  • Any neoadjuvant anticancer treatment of any kind for prostate cancer in the last 5 years
  • Any history of systemic anticancer therapy in the last 15 years
  • Distant metastatic malignancy of any kind
  • Any other condition or intercurrent illness that, in the opinion of the investigator, makes the subject a poor candidate for study participation

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Participants Assigned to Exercise Therapy
Participants with histologically confirmed localized prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance
Behavioral: Exercise Therapy
The intervention will consist of exercise therapy, individualized, walking delivered following a non-linear (i.e., exercise dose is continually altered and progressed in conjunction with appropriate rest/recovery sessions across the entire intervention period) dosing schedule, up to 5 individual treatment sessions/week to achieve a cumulative total duration of 225 to 300 mins/wk until the participant's next standard of care prostate biopsy (about 6-12 months).
No Intervention: Participants Assigned to Usual Care
Participants with histologically confirmed localized prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in molecular, radiologic, and pathologic nimbosus hallmarks from baseline to follow-up
Time Frame: 6-12 months

The phenomenon of multiple independent prognostic features that moderately correlate with one another has been termed Nimbosus, "a gathering of storm clouds". The more Nimbosus hallmarks present in a tumor, the more aggressive it is likely to be, and the greater the chance that it will escape the prostate leading to nodal and distal metastatic spread. Nimbosus hallmarks provides a targetable set of biomarkers to test in a RCT of exercise therapy in localized prostate cancer.

Molecular end points will be evaluated on FFPE tumor samples obtained from a total of two ultrasound-guided transrectal prostate biopsies performed at pretreatment (diagnostic biopsy) and post-intervention around month 6-12 (confirmatory biopsy), as per standard procedures.
6-12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

City of Hope Medical Center

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Lee Jones, City of Hope Medical Center

Publications and helpful links

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Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 10, 2023

Primary Completion (Estimated)

March 1, 2028

Study Completion (Estimated)

June 1, 2028

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 10, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 20, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

March 2, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 4, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 2, 2026

Last Verified

June 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 25780

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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