Continuous Activity Monitoring During Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To perform a prospective trial testing the feasibility and utility of acquiring activity data as a measure of health status during concurrent chemoradiotherapy.

Methods and materials

Ambulatory patients who were planned for treatment with concurrent chemoradiotherapy with curative intent for cancers of the head and neck, lung, or gastrointestinal tract were provided with activity monitors before treatment initiation. Patients were asked to wear the devices continuously throughout the radiation therapy course. Step count data were downloaded weekly during radiation therapy and 2 and 4 weeks after radiation therapy completion. The primary objective was to demonstrate feasibility, defined as collection of step counts for 80% of the days during study subjects' radiation

SUBMITTER: Ohri N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5364815 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature