Clinical trial · Interventional
Exercise for Elderly Lymphoma Patients
Exercise Training is a Feasible and Active Complementary Therapy in Adult and Elderly Patients Receiving Anti- Lymphoma Treatments
NCT04259593CI-TRIAL-00043244completedN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This pilot study was designed in a real-life setting to establish the feasibility, the safety and the activity of a supervised and combined Exercise Training (ET) program in adult and elderly lymphoma patients undergoing cancer-treatments.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elderly Lymphoma Patients | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| exercise training | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Exercise Training Group
- description
- Exercise training group performed three weekly sessions for 16 weeks. This program consisted of moderate intensity aerobic, resistance, balance, and stretching exercises. The duration of every exercise session was 35 minutes during the first week and 65 minutes from the second week onward.
- interventionNames
- Other: exercise training
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control Group
- description
- The control group received usual lymphoma care
Primary outcomes (5)
- measure
- The eligibility rate
- timeFrame
- 6 months
- description
- the eligibility rate was assessed by the number of eligible patients divided by the total number of elements on the sampling frame.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 80 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * ≥18-80 years old, histologically confirmed HL or NHL, patients in need of first or subsequent lines of systemic treatment and with a long-life expectancy Exclusion Criteria: * Patients were excluded if they had less than 4 months of anti-cancer treatment to be delivered, severe orthopaedic, cardiac, pulmonary, or cognitive impairment, osteolytic lesions with the risk of fracture, cachexia or if they were ≥ 65 years and frail on the basis of comprehensive geriatric assessment
References
Publications (1)
- BACKGROUNDStreckmann F, Kneis S, Leifert JA, Baumann FT, Kleber M, Ihorst G, Herich L, Grussinger V, Gollhofer A, Bertz H. Exercise program improves therapy-related side-effects and quality of life in lymphoma patients undergoing therapy. Ann Oncol. 2014 Feb;25(2):493-9. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdt568. PMID 24478323