Lifestyle Intervention Study in Adjuvant Treatment of Early Breast Cancer (LISA)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00463489 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : April 20, 2007
Last Update Posted : September 26, 2018
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Breast Cancer | Behavioral: Lifestyle intervention Behavioral: Mail-based | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 338 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | Lifestyle Intervention Study in Adjuvant Treatment of Early Breast Cancer |
Study Start Date : | August 2007 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | June 2018 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | June 2018 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Active Comparator: Mail-based
Participants will receive a standardized mail-based intervention focussing on healthy living. This will include mailings at study entry as well as a two year subscription to health magazine.
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Behavioral: Mail-based
Participants will receive a standardized mail-based intervention focussing on healthy living. This will include mailings at study entry as well as a two year subscription to health magazine. |
Experimental: Individualized Lifestyle Intervention
Women randomized to the individualized lifestyle intervention arm will receive an intervention program that consists of individual weight loss, diet and physical activity goals, incorporated into a 2 year standardized, structured telephone and mail-based intervention. In addition to diet and physical activity, the intervention will address behavioural and motivational issues relating to weight management including maintaining motivation, overcoming obstacles to success, relapse prevention, emotional distress, stress and time management.
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Behavioral: Lifestyle intervention
Women randomized to the lifestyle intervention arm will receive an intervention program that consists of individual weight loss, diet and physical activity goals, incorporated into a 2 year standardized, structured telephone and mail-based intervention. In addition to diet and physical activity, the intervention will address behavioural and motivational issues relating to weight management including maintaining motivation, overcoming obstacles to success, relapse prevention, emotional distress, stress and time management. |
- Disease-free survival [ Time Frame: 8 years ]
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: 8 years ]
- Distant disease-free survival [ Time Frame: 8 years ]
- Weight at 6, 12, 24, 36, 48 and 60 months compared to baseline [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
- Health-related quality of life at 6, 12, 24, 36, 48 and 60 months compared to baseline [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
- Other medical endpoints such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, fasting biomarkers at 12 months compared to baseline (for women participating in a biospecimen substudy) [ Time Frame: 8 years ]
- Compliance with study procedures. [ Time Frame: 8 years ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | Child, Adult, Older Adult |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Post-menopausal woman with a diagnosis of invasive breast cancer (T1-3,pN0-2,M0) for which definitive surgery was performed during the previous 36 months.
- On adjuvant hormonal therapy with letrozole at time of randomization (either as initial adjuvant hormonal therapy or after a switch from tamoxifen or other hormonal therapy).
- BMI ≥ 24 kg/m2.
- Medical, surgical or radiation oncologist agrees to subject participation in a diet and physical activity program.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Life expectancy less than five years.
- Self-reported inability to walk at least 2 blocks (at any pace).
- Insulin requiring diabetes (telephone directed diet and physical activity changes would be difficult in this population without close coordination with the treating physician). Non-insulin requiring diabetics are eligible for the study.
- Serious digestive and/or absorptive problems, including inflammatory bowel disease and chronic diarrhea that preclude adherence to the study diet.
- Cardiovascular, respiratory or musculoskeletal disease or joint problems that preclude moderate physical activity. Moderate arthritis that does not preclude physical activity is not a reason for ineligibility.
- Psychiatric disorders or conditions that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude participation in the study intervention (e.g. untreated major depression or psychosis, substance abuse, severe personality disorder).
- Patients on aromatase inhibitors other than letrozole at study entry.
- Known recurrence of breast cancer (local, regional or distant) at any time prior to study entry.
- History of other malignancies except: adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer, curatively treated in situ carcinoma of the cervix, or other solid tumours curatively treated with no evidence of disease for ≥ 5 years. Prior in situ cancer of the breast is not a reason for exclusion.
- Patients not fluent in either English or French (spoken and written).
- Patient unwilling or unable to provide informed consent.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00463489

Principal Investigator: | Pamela J Goodwin, MD, MSc | UHN-Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON |
Responsible Party: | Ontario Clinical Oncology Group (OCOG) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00463489 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
OCOG-2007-LISA |
First Posted: | April 20, 2007 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | September 26, 2018 |
Last Verified: | September 2018 |
lifestyle intervention breast cancer adjuvant letrozole |
weight loss BMI post-menopausal estrogen receptor positive progesterone receptor positive |
Breast Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Breast Diseases Skin Diseases |