R01CA272733

Flexible versus standard aerobic training dosing in primary breast cancer: a randomized and response-adapted trial - project summary/abstract.

Chemotherapy for primary breast cancer causes significant declines in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), predisposing patients to increased symptom burden and increased risk of morbidity and mortality from cancer and non-cancer conditions. Randomized trials demonstrate aerobic training (AT) is feasible during chemotherapy for primary breast cancer and attenuates treatment-induced impairments in CRF. However, our recent findings indicate that even with AT during and after chemotherapy, CRF remains substantially below normative values, and less than 25% of patients have a clinically meaningful CRF response.

Increasing the dose of AT substantially increases CRF response; however, higher AT doses are associated with lower AT adherence. Thus, use of a conventional dose-response design wherein patients are assigned to fixed doses is likely imprudent considering lower fixed AT doses will result in underdosing in some patients, and poor adherence in others. A more patient-centered approach used in drug trials is flexible dosing, where the dose is escalated for each patient as tolerated.

There have been no trials directly assessing the efficacy of flexible AT dosing on CRF in any cancer setting. To address this fundamental knowledge gap in exercise-oncology research, the objective of this study is to compare the effects of flexible versus standard fixed AT dosing and response-adapted AT on CRF response.

In this randomized trial, a total of 140 inactive (<90 mins of moderate-intensity exercise/wk) patients with primary breast cancer scheduled to initiate chemotherapy will be randomly allocated (1:1) to flexible dosing: individual AT doses escalated; or standard fixed dosing: 90 mins/week for ~32 weeks (during and after chemotherapy). Patients who do not respond (<3.50 ml/kg/min CRF improvement) at 32 weeks will complete 20 weeks of extended flexible dosing AT.

We will address 3 specific aims:
Aim 1: Compare the effects of flexible versus standard dosing on CRF response rate.
Aim 2: Ascertain the effects on adherence, safety, and patient-reported outcomes.
Aim 3: Evaluate the effects of extended AT in CRF non-responders.

Impact: This study challenges the current dogma that all patients respond equally to a fixed AT dose and will be the first to evaluate flexible AT dosing in any cancer population. Receiving cancer treatment is not a qualifying condition for structured AT and, as such, AT is not currently considered a standard aspect of cancer management. We anticipate the proposed trial will directly address an unmet clinical need by identifying the AT regimen that maximizes CRF response rate and, if successful, findings from this investigation will help guide the AT regimen for translation to clinical care.

Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research

TO IMPROVE SCREENING AND EARLY DETECTION STRATEGIES AND TO DEVELOP ACCURATE DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE COURSE OF DISEASE IN CANCER PATIENTS. SCREENING AND EARLY DETECTION RESEARCH INCLUDES DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIES TO DECREASE CANCER MORTALITY BY FINDING TUMORS EARLY WHEN THEY ARE MORE AMENABLE TO TREATMENT. DIAGNOSIS RESEARCH FOCUSES ON METHODS TO DETERMINE THE PRESENCE OF A SPECIFIC TYPE OF CANCER, TO PREDICT ITS COURSE AND RESPONSE TO THERAPY, BOTH A PARTICULAR THERAPY OR A CLASS OF AGENTS, AND TO MONITOR THE EFFECT OF THE THERAPY AND THE APPEARANCE OF DISEASE RECURRENCE. THESE METHODS INCLUDE DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING AND DIRECT ANALYSES OF SPECIMENS FROM TUMOR OR OTHER TISSUES. SUPPORT IS ALSO PROVIDED FOR ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING RESOURCES OF HUMAN TISSUE TO FACILITATE RESEARCH. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM: TO EXPAND AND IMPROVE THE SBIR PROGRAM, TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TO INCREASE SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION. SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PROGRAM: TO STIMULATE AND FOSTER SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION THROUGH COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CARRIED OUT BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO FOSTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION.

93.394 - Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research

National Cancer Institute (NCI) [HHS - NIH]

New York, New York 100656007 United States

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Improving Outcomes in Cancer Treatment-Related Cardiotoxicity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PA-19-112)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 386% from $734,548 to $3,572,445.