NCT02305498

Yoga Practice for Breast or Ovarian Cancer Patients

Completed NA Last updated 14 March 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Vigorous yoga practice in Ovarian Cancer in 39 participants. Completed in 11 March 2019.

Timeline

24 November 2014

Primary endpoint
11 March 2019

11 March 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	39
Start date	24 November 2014
Primary completion	11 March 2019
Estimated completion	11 March 2019
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Vigorous yoga practice
• Restorative (gentle) yoga practice

Conditions studied

• Ovarian Cancer — all drugs for Ovarian Cancer →
• Breast Cancer — all drugs for Breast Cancer →

Sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — full company profile →

Who can join

18 and older, female only, with Ovarian Cancer or Breast Cancer. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Previous research suggests that regular physical activity may make cancer survivors do better in the long run. Laboratory studies suggest that stress may be bad for cancer patients as well. The investigators are interested in whether yoga, a practice that combines physical activity and stress reduction, is beneficial to cancer survivors. To answer that question, the investigators will need to do a large scale clinical trial.

Before the investigators can do that large study, they need to know whether people are willing to participate in this kind of study, whether they can do the yoga practice regularly and for how long, what kind of changes they may experience in how they can handle their daily activities, emotion, sleep, memory and problem solving ability, and what are the changes that can happen in their body after doing the yoga practice. Answering these questions is what this study is about.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Effects of Vigorous Versus Restorative Yoga Practice on Objective Cognition Functions in Sedentary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.
   Deng G, Bao T, Ryan EL, Benusis L, et al · · 2022 · cited 9× · PMID 35861215 · DOI 10.1177/15347354221089221
2. A Feasibility Study of Restorative Yoga Versus Vigorous Yoga Intervention for Sedentary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Survivors.
   Lapen K, Benusis L, Pearson S, Search B, et al · · 2018 · cited 5× · PMID 30117760 · DOI 10.17761/2018-00039