Can a website help cancer survivors live healthier? large study tests online lifestyle coaching
NCT ID NCT04000880
First seen Jul 02, 2026 · Last updated Jul 02, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether a secure website with educational sessions, goal-setting, and tracking tools can help survivors of several cancers (including breast, prostate, colorectal, and others) improve their diet, increase physical activity, and manage weight. Participants are aged 50 or older and have completed primary cancer treatment. The program aims to boost overall health, physical function, and quality of life.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- web-based behavioral intervention (diet and exercise program)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a scalable, low-cost way for cancer survivors to improve their diet, physical activity, and weight, potentially enhancing quality of life and physical function.
- What could go wrong
- This is a behavioral intervention study, so results depend on participants' adherence. The outcomes are self-reported or measured in a non-clinical setting, and the long-term impact on cancer recurrence or survival is not directly assessed.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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603 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2020
- Finished
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Sep 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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50 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 50 years or older * Resident of the continental United States * Diagnosed with multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, or localized kidney or ovarian cancer; or \[localized (includes in situ) through regional\] breast, colorectum, endometrium, thyroid, or prostate cancer. * Completed primary treatment (surgery, radiation or chemotherapy). Active surveillance among men with prostate cancer or women with ductal carcinoma in situ is acceptable. * Completion of the 8th grade of school. Able to read and write English. * Normal blood pressure or those with high blood pressure for whom physician permission was granted. * Community dwelling. * Reside in an area that receives wireless coverage. * Have an active email address or be willing to have one created for the study. * Current body mass index of greater than or equal to 25 kg/m2, but less than 50 kg/m2. * Current physical activity level is less than 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise per week. Exclusion Criteria: * Participation in another diet and exercise program. * Evidence of progressive cancer of the eligible types. * Recurrence of the eligible cancer types (exceptions are biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer). * A physician has provided instruction to limit current physical activity. * Pre-existing medical conditions that preclude adherence to an unsupervised weight loss intervention (e.g., pregnancy, severe orthopedic conditions, impending hip or knee replacement (within 6 months), end-stage renal disease, paralysis, dementia, blindness, unstable angina, untreated stage 3 hypertension, or recent history of heart attack, congestive heart failure or pulmonary conditions that required oxygen or hospitalization within 6 months). * Second primary cancers, with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer, or if the initial and second cancers are both deemed eligible cancers. * Reside in a skilled nursing or assisted living facility.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States
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University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, Tennessee, 38163, United States
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