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CancerEXCEL-PunjabiNCT07643389

EXCEL-Punjabi: A Culturally Tailored Exercise Oncology Pilot Feasibility Intervention

A study testing EXCEL-Punjabi in people with Cancer, run by University of Calgary at 1 site in Canada.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

The goal of this pilot feasibility study is to explore the feasibility and exploratory effects of a culturally-tailored exercise oncology intervention in Punjabi-speaking individuals of South Asian heritage and their support persons. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Cancer
What is being tested?
EXCEL-Punjabi
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
12 participants
Where
1 siteCanada
Study dates
1 Jul 2025to 12 Dec 2025
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Punjabi-speaking
  • Self-identified as being of South Asian heritage
  • over the age of 18
  • pre-, post-, or currently receiving cancer treatment or a support person of an individual living with and beyond cancer
  • cleared to participate in, at minimum, mild intensity exercise by a Clinical Exercise Physiologist
  • Able to provide informed consent

Who cannot join

  • under the age of 18
  • not cleared to exercise by a Clinical Exercise Physiologist

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Canada1 site

  • Genesis Centre Calgary

    Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4

Other trials in Canada

About this study

Official title: EXCEL-Punjabi: Tailored Exercise Oncology for the South Asian Population

The goal of this pilot feasibility study is to explore the feasibility and exploratory effects of a culturally-tailored exercise oncology intervention in Punjabi-speaking individuals of South Asian heritage and their support persons. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  1. What is the feasibility and acceptability of the EXCEL-Punjabi intervention?
  2. What are the exploratory effects (i.e., psychosocial and physical changes) before and after program delivery?

Participants will take part in a 12-week exercise oncology intervention consisting of twice weekly hour long multimodal circuit-based exercise sessions. They will also complete questionnaires and functional fitness assessments pre- and post- intervention.

Conditions
Cancer
Being tested
EXCEL-Punjabi
Keywords
exercise oncology, culturally tailored, South Asian, Punjabi, Exercise, Cancer, Pilot, Feasibility
Medical subject headings
Neoplasms, Motor Activity

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • EXCEL-PunjabiBehavioural

    Culturally Tailored Exercise Oncology Intervention

Study groups in NCT07643389
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
EXCEL-PunjabiExperimentalCulturally Tailored Exercise Oncology Intervention
Receives: Behavioral: EXCEL-Punjabi

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Measurement Completion

    Participants who completed all pre- and post- questionnaires and functional assessments

    Measured: Baseline to the end of the intervention (12 weeks)

Secondary outcomes (18)

  1. Referrals

    Number of participants referred to intervention

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  2. Consented

    Number of participants who consented to participate in the intervention

    Measured: Recruitment to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  3. Enrolled

    Number of participants who enrolled (i.e. completed baseline assessments)

    Measured: Baseline (week 0)

  4. Attendance

    Intervention Attendance

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  5. Adverse Events

    Using the standardized Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version 6.0

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  6. Time Required to Deliver and Implement Intervention

    Time requirement to deliver intervention

    Measured: From recruitment to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  7. Physical Activity Level

    The Godin Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire is used to determine subjective levels of physical activity in each participant. Participants report how many times per week they partake in mild, moderate, and/or strenuous exercise. Higher scores indicate a more physically active lifestyle.

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  8. Cancer related symptoms

    Change in Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale - revised: cancer. Scale is from 0-10, where 0 means the symptom is absent and 10 means the worst possible severity of the symptom is being experienced.

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  9. Health Related Quality of Life

    Change in EuroQual - 5Dimensions (EQ-5D) tool - first section is a questionnaire; last section uses a scale from 0-100, where 0 means the worst health imaginable and 100 means the best health imaginable.

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  10. Fatigue

    Change in Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Fatigue subscale - scale is from 0-4, where 0 means "not at all" and 4 means "very much".

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  11. Cancer Related Quality of Life

    A 5-point Likert scale (0 = not at all, to 4 = very much) to track wellbeing over the course of the cancer journey.

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  12. Exercise Barriers Self-Efficacy

    Exercise barriers and facilitators questionnaire

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  13. Cognition

    Cancer related cognition using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Cognition questionnaire. A 37-item, self-report questionnaire used to evaluate how cancer patients perceive their own cognitive abilities

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  14. Aerobic Capacity

    In-person participants will be assessed on change in 6-minute walk test (m) results

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  15. Aerobic Capacity

    Online participants will be assessed with change in the 2-minute step test (number of steps) results.

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  16. Lower body strength

    Change in sit-to-stand (number of repetitions in 30 seconds)

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  17. Upper extremity flexibility

    Change in active shoulder flexion range of motion (degrees)

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

  18. Balance

    Change in one legged stance test (seconds)

    Measured: Baseline to end of intervention (12 weeks)

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted11 Jun 2026
  2. Study start1 Jul 2025
  3. Primary completion12 Dec 2025
  4. Study completion12 Dec 2025

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Model description
Pilot Feasibility Study
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
12 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT07643389
Sponsor's protocol ID
HREBA.CC-25-0150
Acronym
EXCEL-Punjabi
Status last verified
May 2026
First submitted
11 May 2026
Last updated
11 Jun 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No: Aggregate and participant-level results are reported within publications, but there is no formal plan for external IPD sharing. With a small sample size from a specific cultural group, there may be risk of re-identification.

Publications

  • King-Shier K, Lau A, Fung S, LeBlanc P, Johal S. Ethnocultural influences in how people prefer to obtain and receive health information. J Clin Nurs. 2018 Apr;27(7-8):e1519-e1528. doi: 10.1111/jocn.14281. Epub 2018 Mar 30.

    PubMed 29396869

  • Loeb S, Borno HT, Gomez S, Ravenell J, Myrie A, Sanchez Nolasco T, Byrne N, Cole R, Black K, Stair S, Macaluso JN, Walter D, Siu K, Samuels C, Kazemi A, Crocker R, Sherman R, Wilson G, Griffith DM, Langford AT. Representation in Online Prostate Cancer Content Lacks Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Implications for Black and Latinx Men. J Urol. 2022 Mar;207(3):559-564. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000002257. Epub 2022 Feb 4.

    PubMed 35114821

  • Bhandari D, Ozaki A, Kobashi Y, Higuchi A, Shakya P, Tanimoto T. Cancer information seeking and scanning behavior among Nepalese migrants in Japan and its association with preventive behavior. PLoS One. 2020 Jun 29;15(6):e0235275. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235275. eCollection 2020.

    PubMed 32598343

  • Caperchione CM, Chau S, Walker GJ, Mummery WK, Jennings C. Gender-Associated Perceptions of Barriers and Motivators to Physical Activity Participation in South Asian Punjabis Living in Western Canada. J Phys Act Health. 2015 May;12(5):686-93. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2013-0208. Epub 2013 Aug 7.

    PubMed 25105245

  • Wagoner CW, Dreger J, Keats MR, Santa Mina D, McNeely ML, Cuthbert C, Capozzi LC, Francis GJ, Trinh L, Sibley D, Langley J, Chiekwe J, Ester M, Foucaut AM, Culos-Reed SN. First-Year Implementation of the EXercise for Cancer to Enhance Living Well (EXCEL) Study: Building Networks to Support Rural and Remote Community Access to Exercise Oncology Resources. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 20;20(3):1930. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20031930.

    PubMed 36767296

  • Heston AH, Schwartz AL, Justice-Gardiner H, Hohman KH. Addressing physical activity needs of survivors by developing a community-based exercise program: LIVESTRONG(R) at the YMCA. Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2015 Apr;19(2):213-7. doi: 10.1188/15.CJON.213-217.

    PubMed 25840387

  • Haas BK, Kimmel G, Hermanns M, Deal B. Community-based FitSTEPS for life exercise program for persons with cancer: 5-year evaluation. J Oncol Pract. 2012 Nov;8(6):320-4, 2 p following 324. doi: 10.1200/JOP.2012.000555. Epub 2012 Jul 24.

    PubMed 23598839

  • Cheifetz O, Park Dorsay J, Hladysh G, Macdermid J, Serediuk F, Woodhouse LJ. CanWell: meeting the psychosocial and exercise needs of cancer survivors by translating evidence into practice. Psychooncology. 2014 Feb;23(2):204-15. doi: 10.1002/pon.3389. Epub 2013 Sep 6.

    PubMed 24009181

  • Leach HJ, Danyluk JM, Nishimura KC, Culos-Reed SN. Evaluation of a Community-Based Exercise Program for Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Treatment. Cancer Nurs. 2015 Nov-Dec;38(6):417-25. doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000000217.

    PubMed 25539165

  • Leach HJ, Danyluk JM, Culos-Reed SN. Design and implementation of a community-based exercise program for breast cancer patients. Curr Oncol. 2014 Oct;21(5):267-71. doi: 10.3747/co.21.2079.

    PubMed 25302035

  • Culos-Reed N, Wagoner CW, Dreger J, McNeely ML, Keats M, Santa Mina D, Cuthbert C, Capozzi LC, Francis GJ, Chen G, Ester M, McLaughlin E, Eisele M, Sibley D, Langley J, Chiekwe J, Christensen T; EXCEL Project Team. Implementing an exercise oncology model to reach rural and remote individuals living with and beyond cancer: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation protocol for project EXCEL (EXercise for Cancer to Enhance Living Well). BMJ Open. 2022 Dec 29;12(12):e063953. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063953.

    PubMed 36581419

  • McNeely ML, Sellar C, Williamson T, Shea-Budgell M, Joy AA, Lau HY, Easaw JC, Murtha AD, Vallance J, Courneya K, Mackey JR, Parliament M, Culos-Reed N. Community-based exercise for health promotion and secondary cancer prevention in Canada: protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study. BMJ Open. 2019 Sep 13;9(9):e029975. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029975.

    PubMed 31519676

  • Hardcastle SJ, Cohen PA. Effective Physical Activity Promotion to Survivors of Cancer Is Likely to Be Home Based and to Require Oncologist Participation. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Nov 10;35(32):3635-3637. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2017.74.6032. Epub 2017 Sep 15. No abstract available.

    PubMed 28915086

  • Campbell KL, Winters-Stone KM, Wiskemann J, May AM, Schwartz AL, Courneya KS, Zucker DS, Matthews CE, Ligibel JA, Gerber LH, Morris GS, Patel AV, Hue TF, Perna FM, Schmitz KH. Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors: Consensus Statement from International Multidisciplinary Roundtable. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2019 Nov;51(11):2375-2390. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002116.

    PubMed 31626055

  • Cormie P, Zopf EM, Zhang X, Schmitz KH. The Impact of Exercise on Cancer Mortality, Recurrence, and Treatment-Related Adverse Effects. Epidemiol Rev. 2017 Jan 1;39(1):71-92. doi: 10.1093/epirev/mxx007.

    PubMed 28453622

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing EXCEL-Punjabi in people with Cancer, run by University of Calgary at 1 site in Canada.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 11 Jun 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Canada. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Measurement Completion (time frame: Baseline to the end of the intervention (12 weeks)). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT07643389, which also lists 16 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 11 Jun 2026.

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