CanRestoreFunction: Cancer-related fatigue management eHealth intervention- a pilot pragmatic randomized-control trial
- Open Access
- 01-03-2026
- Cancer Fatigue
- Research
- Authors
- Anne B. Fleischer
- Mary Insana Fisher
- Wei-Wen Hsu
- Published in
- Supportive Care in Cancer | Issue 3/2026
Abstract
Purpose
To investigate the effect of an 8-week multi-modal eHealth cancer-related fatigue intervention in women with breast cancer. eHealth included remote education, individualized exercise, and weekly problem-solving sessions. Primary outcomes were recruitment/retention and cancer-related fatigue level. Quality of life was a secondary aim.
Methods
Women with Stage 0–3 breast cancer between 18–70 years who scored ≥ 4/10 on the One-Item Fatigue Scale, completed chemotherapy and/or radiation within 5 years, and did not have chronic fatigue, were randomly assigned to eHealth intervention (eHealth) (n = 18) or control (n = 24). Cancer-related fatigue and quality of life were measured before and after intervention using the Brief Fatigue Inventory and the Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy-General.
Results
Social media was an effective way to recruit participants into this study; however, more participants in the eHealth group dropped out than the control group. Both groups' fatigue scores significantly decreased over time (p = 0.001). eHealth decreases in fatigue reached a minimally clinically important difference (2.25), but control did not (1.3). Quality of life significantly improved in the eHealth group compared to the control (p = 0.03).
Conclusion
Multi-modal cancer-related fatigue eHealth intervention appears to clinically reduce fatigue and improve quality of life among women with breast cancer.
US Clinical Trial Register NCT05868187. Date registered: 2–7-2023. www.clinicalgrials.gov
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- Title
- CanRestoreFunction: Cancer-related fatigue management eHealth intervention- a pilot pragmatic randomized-control trial
- Authors
-
Anne B. Fleischer
Mary Insana Fisher
Wei-Wen Hsu
- Publication date
- 01-03-2026
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published in
-
Supportive Care in Cancer / Issue 3/2026
Print ISSN: 0941-4355
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7339 - DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-026-10477-5
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