NCT04266080Active, not recruiting
Game-Based Physical Activity in Childhood Cancer Survivors
Assessing a Game-Based Physical Activity Intervention in Childhood Cancer Survivors: The STEP UP for FAMILIES Pilot Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will test whether a game-based exercise plan can help increase the level of physical activity in childhood cancer survivors. The game-based exercise plan will involve participation by both a childhood cancer survivor and his/her parent or caregiver. This study will also look at whether the game-based exercise plan improves childhood cancer survivors' quality of life.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 48 (actual)
- First submitted
- 10 Feb 2020
- Start date
- 7 Feb 2020
- Primary completion date
- Feb 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Diseases
- Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT04266080
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 48
- From 7 Feb 2020 to the primary completion date, Feb 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Survivors, or parents/legal guardians of survivors, with a medical condition that makes it unsafe to complete study requirements are not eligible for this study. This includes a diagnosis of:
- Severe persistent asthma
- Known symptomatic coronary artery disease
- Musculoskeletal defects that interfere with sustained physical activity
- Any medical or psychosocial condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would jeopardize the health of the participant during study procedures
Who the study is looking for
- Childhood cancer survivor:
- History of treatment for childhood cancer with cardiotoxic therapy (anthracyclines, chest radiation, total body irradiation)
- Off all systemic cancer therapy for ≥ 2 years
- Ability to speak and understand English
- Ability to complete all protocol assessments
- Mobile device with SMS text messaging capability
- Ambulatory and able to perform all study requirements
- Attained age 10-16 years
- Has a parent or legal guardian willing to participate in the study as a dyad
- Willing to receive daily SMS text message alerts
- Not currently exercising at least 30 minutes per day (5 days/week)
- ECOG Performance Status of 0-1
- Parent/legal guardian:
- Parent or legal guardian of a childhood cancer survivor treated with cardiotoxic therapy (anthracyclines, chest radiation, total body irradiation)
- Parent or legal guardian of a child age 10-16 years who is at least 2 years from completion of systemic cancer therapy
- Ability to speak and understand English
- Ability to complete all protocol assessments
- Ability to provide informed consent
- Ambulatory and able to perform all study requirements
- Access to a mobile device with SMS text messaging capability
- Is the parent or legal guardian of a childhood cancer survivor who is willing to participate in this study as a dyad
- Willing to receive daily SMS text message alerts
- ECOG Performance Status of 0-1
Age in the registry: 10 years to 16 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
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