Excessive Weight, Breast Cancer, and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs): Findings From Active Living After Cancer (ALAC) With Environmental Vitality
Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Observational
SUMMARY
To learn about breast cancer survivor's knowledge of and interest in learning about environmental exposures related to personal care products. Researchers also want to learn if there is a link between excessive weight and chemicals that may affect hormones.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: Female
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Be a resident of Acres Home community
• Be 18 years of age and older
• Current or former participants of the ALAC program
• Self-report a breast cancer diagnosis including subtypes
• Able to communicate in English
Locations
United States
Texas
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
RECRUITING
Houston
Contact Information
Primary
Dede Teteh-Brooks, DRPH
dkteteh@mdanderson.org
713-563-3493
Time Frame
Start Date: 2026-01-06
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-12-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 30
Treatments
Pre-Focus Group Survey
Before your focus group session, you will complete computer-based surveys about your age, biological sex, gender, income, highest level of education, marital status, insurance status, and health behaviors. The online surveys may take up to 40 minutes to complete.
Focus Group Session
After completing the pre-focus group surveys, you will be assigned to a focus group. The focus group will include a warm-up discussion (10 minutes), a short audiovisual presentation (5 minutes) describing endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), and open-ended questions facilitating discussions on environmental exposures and personal care product usage and ALAC program from your perspective (75 minutes).~Focus groups will occur by Zoom video conferencing and will be audio- and video-recorded. The recording will be transcribed (written down) word-for-word, but without your name or any other identifying information. The digital audio and video files will be destroyed after they are transcribed.
Post-Focus Group Survey
After your focus group session, you will complete a computer-based survey to help researchers understand the products you use and things that you do in your everyday life.~You will also complete a questionnaire asking about the products you've used in the last 24 hours using the Clearya app. The Clearya app captures the ingredients in the products you use by taking pictures or videos of your products. You will be asked to answer 3 questions for each product scanned.~The online surveys may take up to 40 minutes to complete.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center