Exercise Program for Lymphoma Patients on Chemotherapy

This study, called iSTAND, is looking at whether a 12-week exercise program can help lymphoma patients who are starting R-CHOP or POLA-R-CHP chemotherapy. The program involves reminder prompts, counseling, and activities like walking, cycling, and resistance band exercises, done at home and in the clinic with an exercise trainer. The main goal is to see if this exercise program is practical for patients and if it can improve heart health and reduce side effects from chemotherapy. We are looking for about 24 newly diagnosed lymphoma patients, aged 18 and older, to join this study. The study's status is currently unclear.

Study design
This is an interventional study with about 24 participants. You would be randomly assigned to either the exercise program group or a usual care group.
What's involved
You would participate in the study for about 3 months, which includes screening, fitness and physical health assessments, blood tests, and questionnaires.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Retention will be measured at 13 weeks after starting the study.

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NCT06923397

Interrupting Sedentary Time to Improve Cardiometabolic Health and Toxicity in Patients With Lymphoma Receiving Chemotherapy: The iSTAND Trial

Recruiting
NAAges 18+InterventionalSupportive care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
~24 participants
Updated 2026-04-13 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Interrupted Sedentary Time Intervention

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Intervention Completion Rate (Feasibility)
Measured over 12 weeks
+4 more outcomes measured
Lymphoma
Lymphoma, Hodgkin
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Sedentary Behavior
1 sites across 1 states
Massachusetts1
  • Christina Dieli-Conwright, MD, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Christina Dieli-Conwright, MD, PhD
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Ability to understand and the willingness to sign informed consent prior to any study- related procedures.
Patients diagnosed with lymphoma.
Will receive first line R-CHOP or POLA-R-CHP chemotherapy regimens, patients do not need to be within a certain timeframe from diagnosis.
Aged ≥18 years; due to the rarity of the disease in those \<18 years, this age bracket will not be included.
Engaging in ≤60-minutes of structured moderate or vigorous intensity exercise.
Have physician clearance to participate in exercise.
Speak English.
Willing to travel to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for necessary data collection and exercise sessions.
Access to a phone that can receive text messages.

Exclusion

Unstable comorbidities that prevent participation in moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise. Patients with unstable comorbidities likely require supervised exercise for safety, and part of this study involves unsupervised exercise; therefore, for safety reasons, these persons are excluded.
Participate in more than 60 minutes of structured moderate-to-vigorous exercise per week over the last month. Excess additional exercise is a confounding factor in assessing the effect of the current interrupted sedentary time intervention.
Patients receiving treatment for other active malignancies (except basal cell carcinoma). This study is exclusively targeting lymphoma chemotherapy-related effects.
Patients currently taking weight loss drugs.
Subjects who in the opinion of the investigators may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study.
Unable to travel to DFCI Longwood campus for necessary data collection and chemotherapy infusions.
  • Intervention Completion Rate (Feasibility)12 weeks

    Intervention feasibility is defined as: 1) A participant completes ≥70% of the supervised activity breaks on at least 3 out of the 4 infusion appointments. 2) A participant completes ≥70% of the prescribed home-based resistance activity breaks on at least 48 days out of the possible 68 days (12 week) intervention (excluding the 4 infusion days and 1 rest day per week) (i.e., meet interrupting sedentary behavior goals across at least 70% of the intervention). 3) A participant completes ≥70% of the prescribed home-based step goals (i.e., \>250 steps per hour) on at least 48 days out of the possible 68 days (12 week) intervention (excluding the 4 infusion days and 1 rest day per week) (i.e., meet interrupting sedentary behavior goals across at least 70% of the intervention).

  • Refusal Rate12 weeks

    Defined as ≤50% of eligible screened participants refuse to complete intervention.

  • Retention Rate13 weeks

    Retention of consented participants to study end is ≥70%.

  • Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM) Scale13 weeks

    Assessed by the Acceptability of the Intervention Measures, a 4-item measure rated on a 5-point Likert scale with answers ranging from "Completely disagree" to "Completely agree." A total scores range is 4 to 20 with a higher score indicating greater acceptability. The intervention will be deemed acceptable by participants if ≥70% of participants have a mean score ≥ 4 on the AIM.

  • Acceptability Exit Survey13 weeks

    The intervention will be deemed acceptable by participants if 1) ≥70% of participants report "agree" or "strongly agree" to the prompt "Participation in this study helped me reduce my daily sedentary time" and 2) ≥70% of participants report "probably" or "yes" to the prompt "I would recommend this program to other patients being treated for cancer."