Abstract
Introduction
Accurate, patient-centered evaluation of physical function in patients with cancer can
provide important information on the functional impacts experienced by patients both from the
disease and its treatment. Increasingly, digital health technology is facilitating and providing
new ways to measure symptoms and function. There is a need to characterize the longitudinal
measurement characteristics of physical function assessments, including clinician-reported
physical function (ClinRo), patient-reported physical function (PRO), performance outcome tests
(PerfO) and wearable data, to inform regulatory and clinical decision-making in cancer clinical
trials and oncology practice.
Methods
and analysis
In this prospective study, we are enrolling 200 English- and/or Spanish-speaking patients
with breast cancer or lymphoma seen at Mayo Clinic or Yale University who will receive
standard of care intravenous cytotoxic chemotherapy. Physical function assessments will be
obtained longitudinally using multiple assessment modalities. Participants will be followed for 9
months using a patient-centered health data aggregating platform that consolidates study
questionnaires, electronic health record data, and activity and sleep data from a wearable sensor.
Data analysis will focus on understanding variability, sensitivity, and meaningful changes across
the included physical function assessments and evaluating their relationship to key clinical
outcomes. Additionally, the feasibility of multi-modal physical function data collection in real-
world patients with cancer will be assessed, as will patient impressions of the usability and
acceptability of the wearable sensor, data aggregation platform, and PROs.
Ethics and dissemination
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This study has received approval from IRBs at Mayo Clinic, Yale University, and the U.S. Food
& Drug Administration. Results will be made available to participants, funders, the research
community, and the public.
Registration Details. The trial registration number for this study is NCT05214144
Strengths & Limitations
• This study addresses an important unmet need by characterizing the performance
characteristics of multiple patient-centered physical function measures in patients with
cancer
• Physical function is an important and undermeasured clinical outcome. Scientifically
rigorous capture and measurement of physical function constitutes a key component of
cancer treatment tolerability assessment both from a regulatory and clinical perspective.
• This study will include patients with lymphoma or breast cancer receiving a broad range
of cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens. While recruitment will occur at two academic sites,
patients who ultimately receive treatment at local community sites will be included.
• A patient-centered health data aggregating platform facilitates the delivery of patient-
reported outcome measures and collection of wearable data to researchers, while reducing
patient burden compared to traditional patient-generated data collection and aggregation
Methods
• Heterogeneity in patient willingness or comfort engaging with mobile products including
smartphones and wearables, enrollment primarily at large academic centers, and the
modest sample size are potential limitations to the external validity of the study
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MAIN MANUSCRIPT
Introduction
Cancer clinical trials have long emphasized important metrics of tumor response and survival
rates to evaluate the benefit of cancer trials. However, there has been increasing recognition of
the importance of systematically assessing how patients feel and function – tolerability – while
on treatment.1 Disease-related symptoms, physical function, and toxicity (i.e. side effects from
treatment) are core outcomes that have been identified by the United States Food & Drug
Administration to inform the safety, tolerability and efficacy of an investigational cancer
therapy
2 3.
Physical function (PF) is defined as the ability to carry out day-to-day activities that require
physical effort4. Symptoms related to a patient’s underlying cancer as well as treatment-related
toxicity can impact PF. PF can be assessed using multiple complementary approaches. These
include clinician- or investigator-reports (e.g. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group [ECOG]
performance status [PS]5), patient-reported outcome measures (PROs; e.g., questionnaires
administered to patients that assess their physical functioning), performance outcome measures6
involving measurement observation of a patient’s function (e.g. 6-minute walk test [6MWT],
Timed Up and Go [TUG] test), and physiologic and functional data collected using digital health
technologies such as wearable sensors. Given that there are multiple approaches to assessing PF,
quantitative data are needed to understand differences in measurement characteristics between
these distinct data sources, including variability over time, agreement among measures,
sensitivity to changes, and meaningful levels of change.
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Historical approach to evaluating physical function in cancer clinical trials: clinician-
reported assessment (ClinRo)
The widely accepted method for recording a patient’s overall functional status in most cancer
clinical trials has historically been clinician- or investigator-reported PS using scales such as the
Karnofsky performance status (KPS)7 and its derivative, the ECOG PS5. These tools have
become a ubiquitous, international standard in hematology/oncology practice and research.
While the simplicity of the PS is attractive, it is also a drawback, as it lacks granularity, which
becomes particularly relevant in the setting of patients at ECOG PS 2-3 and clinical trial
eligibility. Many trial eligibility criteria exclude patients with ECOG PS >
2, thus leaving the
subjective judgement of an oncologist as the main factor determinant of whether a patient can
receive what is often a highly desirable therapy on study, or not
8. This lack of granularity may
also impact its sensitivity as a longitudinal outcome measure of changes in PF, reducing the
utility of this measure, originally developed as a prognostic tool, when used as a clinical trial
outcome assessed over time. Additional limitations to the ECOG PS as a longitudinal measure
of physical functioning are that the score is clinician-assessed, rather than directly reflecting the
patient experience
9, and is rarely assessed post-baseline in most cancer trials.
Novel and more comprehensive approaches to measuring PF which complement ClinRo
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs)
While patient health records and provider assessments are invaluable resources for clinical
care and research, the patient’s voice is most often absent. PROs are reports of the status of the
patient’s health that come directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient’s
response by a clinician or caregiver10. PROs are an assessment method that can be used to
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directly capture many aspects of a patients’ health, from individual symptoms to functional
domains such as physical-, emotional-, cognitive, and social function, to the broad multi-domain
concept of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Only patients can tell us how their treatments
affect their well-being, as every patient has different goals, values, and preferences. Despite
advances in cancer care and delivery, many patients with cancer experience substantial
symptoms from disease, side effects from treatment, and functional decline that negatively affect
their HRQOL. Clinicians often miss or underreport symptomatic adverse events (AE)
experienced by patients that can lead to physical, psychological, and other toxicities going
unrecognized
11 12. The systematic incorporation of PRO assessment to measure symptoms and
function that affect patients’ HRQOL in cancer clinical trials is now recognized as critical to
complement standard tumor, survival, and clinician-reported safety data by patients, clinicians,
industry, academics, and regulators.
13-15
Some of the more commonly used PRO measurement systems used in cancer research
include the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
questionnaires
16, Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)
questionnaires17, and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT)
questionnaires18. Several of these tools include items or subscales that assess physical
functioning. The Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for
Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE)
19 is a library of important symptomatic adverse events that can
quantify symptomatic toxicities from the patient perspective and can inform causative symptoms
that may impact physical functioning. Additionally, prior studies have demonstrated the benefit
of patients (in addition to clinicians) directly reporting their own ECOG PS
20, and patient-
friendly versions of the ECOG PS are available21-23.
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The Patient Global Impression scales (“of change” abbreviated as PGI-C; or “of severity”
abbreviated as PGI-S) are single item questions used to evaluate the patient’s perception of
change in PF and severity.24 These questions are often used to assess meaningful change in PRO
scores and other functional measures. There are also questions that are disease-specific, and
tools designed to focus more specifically on a particular domain such as physical function.25
Performance outcome (PerfO) measures
PerfO measures are defined as a measurement based on standardized task(s) actively
undertaken by a patient according to a set of instructions. A PerfO assessment may be
administered by an appropriately trained individual or completed by the patient independently.6
There are a variety of validated PerfO measures that can be used to more objectively measure a
patient’s physical PS, including the TUG test, the Sit-Rise test, the Short Physical Performance
Battery, gait speed, and grip strength.
26 27 The TUG has been used to predict falls in a cohort of
geriatric patients with cancer, but the others have not been validated in broader cancer cohorts.28
As these tools are primarily used in geriatric populations, they may not be as discriminating with
younger patients who have better baseline physical fitness.
On the other hand, the 6MWT is a comprehensive measure of exercise capacity suitable for
a broad age range. The 6MWT encompasses components of mobility, endurance, and functional
capacity.29-31 It is relatively straightforward to administer, requires little expertise or training for
the patient, and involves minimal equipment. The 6MWT has been used in patients undergoing
cancer treatment as well as cancer survivors32 33 and normative values for patients with
hematologic malignancies have been published. In this study, the standard, validated 6MWT has
been selected as the PerfO of interest.
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Wearable technologies
Wearable products have steadily advanced over the last several years with rapidly evolving
sensor technology to measure human movement, such as accelerometers, magnetometers, and
gyroscopes.34 Commercially available, consumer-grade wearables capable of tracking
movement have become ubiquitous to the general public in recent years.35 These products can
further inform our measurement and understanding of PF by allowing passive monitoring of
physical activity in the real world setting. Wearable technology mitigates some of the limitations
of self-reported data (e.g., avoiding recall bias), and the narrow validity of data generated in
tightly controlled research lab environments.
34 36
Wearables have been used to assess physical rehabilitation of patients with disabilities and
elderly or hospitalized patients.37-40 Both capacity (what a patient can do, such as maximal gait
speed) and performance (what a patient does, such as total steps per day) have been measured
using wearables when assessing changes in PF.35 A recent study demonstrated a correlation of
heart rate variability measured through a wearable product with PF assessed using the Short
Physical Performance Battery scores, TUG scores, and self-reported PF (SF-36 physical
composite scores).
41 The correlation of average daily steps with the 6MWT, another established
capacity assessment, was also reported by a recent study.42
Fitbit activity tracking products were selected for this study as they have demonstrated
acceptable accuracy for heart rate, step count and moderate to vigorous physical activities
(MVPA) when compared to research-grade tracking products.
43-45 Additionally, they are widely
available and familiar to consumers.
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Unmet needs in the evaluation of physical function in cancer patients
There is an unmet need to better characterize the measurement characteristics of ClinRo,
PRO, PerfO and wearable data to inform selection of measures to meet individual cancer clinical
trial objectives. For most therapeutic trials, it may be sufficient to select a single measure
suitable across a wide variety of trial contexts to foster standardization, while comparative
tolerability trials may use several measures to increase confidence in findings. In all cases, a
firm scientific understanding of measurement characteristics including variability, sensitivity,
and meaningful change across all modalities would advance our ability to make science-driven
trial design decisions and best inform regulatory and clinical decision-making. Operational
aspects including ease of use and adherence are also critical to identify methods to reduce
missing data- a key challenge to interpreting PF results regardless of assessment modality.
Few studies have demonstrated the logistical feasibility, sensitivity, and complementarity
of different PF measurement modalities in the cancer treatment context. There has been no clear
identification of meaningful levels of change for these measures either with respect to patient
experience or in correlation with adverse event or hospitalization rates. Such data would inform
potential use of PROs and digital hardware in the design of tolerability endpoints for regulatory
review in cancer clinical trials in all phases of medical product (i.e., drug, device, and biologics)
development.
In this prospective study, we will evaluate PF in patients with cancer undergoing routine
treatment. We will collect PF data across four assessment modalities in a population of patients
with solid tumors and hematologic malignancies receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy with standard
clinical follow up and care.
Study Aims
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The purpose of this study is to integrate four PF measures (ClinRo, PRO, PerfO and wearable
data) in a prospective cohort of patients receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer or lymphoma.
Using a digital health-based patient-centered data aggregation platform, Hugo Health, we aim to
collect and compare PF trajectories and establish measurement characteristics for the different
assessment modalities of PF.
There are three main study aims:
1) To measure PF using ClinRo, PRO, PerfO and wearable data. This includes
characterizing feasibility and assessment challenges by comparing levels of missing data
and reasons for missingness across the PF modalities and report on trajectories of
function as ascertained by the four PF modalities.
2) To explore associations between various sources of PF data and determine meaningful
change thresholds. This includes assessing measurement characteristics of the different
modalities, including sensitivity to change and identification of meaningful change
thresholds; comparing changes within and between modalities; and exploring
associations between changes in the PF modalities and subsequent clinical outcomes,
such as patient-reported AEs, other patient-reported domains of HRQOL, acute care
usage, and chemotherapy dose delay/reduction.
3) To assess patient acceptability and experience using the different PF assessment
modalities, via the use of an exit questionnaire, to understand burden and usability of
electronic PROs and wearable data collection from the patient perspective.
Methods
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In this prospective study, we are collecting PF data across the four different assessment
modalities in a population of patients with breast cancer or lymphoma receiving routine-
anticancer therapy including a cytotoxic chemotherapy. We plan to follow patients prospectively
for 9 months, tracking clinician and patient self-report of physical functioning, PerfOs, and
wearable data using a patient-centered health data sharing platform – Hugo Health – that will
consolidate data from electronic health records (EHR), patient surveys, and wearable data (See
Figure 1, Study Schema). Patients use their personal smartphone or other web-connected mobile
product to answer questionnaires about PF, symptoms and adverse effects. Information from the
EHR is collected to record baseline clinical features, clinician-reported performance status,
treatment plans, and outcomes including acute care usage (emergency department visits,
hospitalizations), and chemotherapy dose reductions, delays or discontinuations.
The study is based at Mayo Clinic (Minnesota) and Yale University. Participants are
recruited both at community and academic hospitals, as well as clinics affiliated with these sites.
Participants can be treated after recruitment at a local community site and followed remotely
after study consent and enrollment is obtained at the primary site. Informational flyers are
placed in waiting rooms of breast cancer and lymphoma clinic practices at both primary sites.
Charts of potential study candidates are reviewed by clinical investigators, and if potentially
eligible, patients are approached about and consented for the study by the study research
assistants. Each site will enroll 100 patients. Complete inclusion and exclusion criteria are in
Appendix 1.
Measures and Data Collection
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A detailed description of Hugo Health, the electronic health data aggregating technology used to
administer PRO questionnaires, collect patient electronic health record portal data, and aggregate
wearable data in this study, has been published previously.46 47 All of the data and records
described below and generated during this study are kept confidential in accordance with
institutional policies and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) on
subject privacy.
Clinician-Reported Performance Status (ClinRo) and Performance Outcomes (PerfO)
Clinician-reported performance status is recorded from the medical record into a REDcap form
by research assistants every 3 months. The 6MWT is performed once at baseline (prior to start
of chemotherapy) and at 3 months for participants treated at Mayo Clinic and Yale primary sites.
Participants receiving care at another site will not have an additional 6MWT observation.
Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO)
Questionnaires are sent by Hugo to patients throughout the 9-month follow-up period (Table 1).
To inform our measurement approach, we engaged three patient advocate co-investigators who
reviewed the schedule of assessments to minimize participant burden. PROs assessing PF
include the PROMIS version 2.0 physical function 8c short form, PF questions from the EORTC
QLQ-F17 instrument, a patient-adapted version of the ECOG PS (PRO-ECOG), and the PGI-
C/PGI-S items pertaining to PF. Additional PROs that capture global assessments of quality of
life and well-being (functional and QOL domains of the EORTC QLQ-F17 and selected items
from the PRO-CTCAE, FACIT GP5) are used to assess the correlation of PF data with
symptomatic toxicities, patient-reported AEs, and other domains of HRQOL. Hugo sends
automated reminders if patients do not complete the weekly survey after 48 hours or the monthly
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survey after one week. Additionally, at key timepoints, research assistants call patients if
questionnaires have not been completed after 5 days for weekly questionnaires or after 2 weeks
and 2 days for the monthly questionnaires.
Wearable data
A Fitbit model with built-in GPS, the Fitbit Inspire, is used in this study. Multiple data
parameters are recorded from the lead-in time point to the completion of month 9 of follow up.
The lead-in time, for baseline data collection prior to initiation of cancer-directed therapy, was
pragmatically derived to be at least 24 hours. Fitbit data are automatically uploaded from the
wearable to Fitbit’s servers when the Bluetooth feature on the patient’s wearable is turned on.
Hugo downloads that data through the Fitbit API regularly and links it to the other participant
data. All wearable data is collected and stored via Hugo.
Patients are instructed to (1) wear the Fitbit as much as possible during the day and night,
limiting non-wear time to recharging periods (approximately 1-2 hours every 3 days) and (2)
synchronize (upload) the Fitbit data from the wearable to Fitbit’s servers every 3 days using the
Fitbit smartphone application. Reminders to synchronize Fitbit data are delivered by Hugo to
study participants on a weekly basis. Additionally, Fitbit data are reviewed for completeness by
the study team weekly and patients whose data has not been received are contacted by research
assistants.
Predefined parameters evaluating both capacity and performance measurements of PF from
three domains (steps/distance, heart rate, and activity level) will be used for comparison with the
other PF assessment modalities. Additional metrics of interest derived from the raw data
parameters or obtained directly from Fitbit will be considered. These additional metrics may
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include distance walked per day, sleep duration per day, heart rate variability, sleep cycle
duration, etc.
Analysis Plan
Specific Aim 1: In order to characterize assessment challenges, completion rates will be
computed and reasons for missing data will be described. For each PF metric, the completion
rate will be computed at applicable time points using (1) a fixed denominator method using all
patients ever enrolled, and (2) a variable denominator method using the number of active patients
at each time point. For the variable denominator approach, at each timepoint, active participants
are those who have not died and have not withdrawn from study participation. Intercurrent
events including reason for study withdrawal, disease progression, and death will be summarized
in analysis.
To describe distributions of PF responses over time, the trajectory of each PF metric will be
graphically explored using stream (spaghetti) plots and mean plots. Mean plots will employ raw
means as well as estimated means from a general linear mixed modeling at each time point.
Estimation will include group means and group mean changes from baseline.
Specific Aim 2: To identify measurement characteristics of each PF metric, standard
psychometric analyses investigating sensitivity to change, and meaningful change thresholds will
be carried out. These analyses will employ both anchor-based and distribution-based methods.
The primary anchor will be PGI-C and the key secondary anchor will be PGI-S.
Distribution-based analyses for each PF metric will include the mean, standard deviation,
median, first quartile, third quartile, minimum, and maximum. Effect sizes representing small,
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moderate, and large effects will be computed as 0.2, 0.5, and 0.8 times the baseline standard
deviation.
Anchor-based analyses will estimate the mean change for each PF metric over time
according to how patients respond to the PGI-C and PGI-S items. Mean change at each post-
baseline timepoint will be described using the mean and standard deviation within strata of
patients grouped by their status change (those reporting worsening status; no change in status;
and improved status) and their current limitations in PF (no limitations, mild or moderate
limitations, and severe limitations). Additionally, the standardized response mean (SRM) will be
computed as the mean change score divided by the standard deviation of the change scores
within each change category (worsening vs. no change vs. improvement) or severity category
(normal vs. mild/moderate vs. severe). Values greater than 0.8 will be considered large and
values between 0.5 and 0.8 will be considered moderate. Additionally, Spearman correlations
between the change in each PF metric and the change in other anchors (e.g., physician-reported
and patient-reported ECOG PS, patient-reported role function, global health status/QOL, and
HRQOL via the EORTC QLQ-C17; PRO-CTCAE symptomatic adverse event grades; and
FACIT GP5) will be computed.
The relationship between change in PF metrics and PGI-C and PGI-S items will be
investigated using general linear mixed models. Mean change from baseline with 95%
confidence intervals will be computed for each PF metric based on mixed modeling. Mixed
models will include all PF metrics as outcomes and time as a categorical variable. Additional
patient or design characteristics will be incorporated as baseline covariates. Composite
covariance will initially be used, with the final covariance structure selected based on
minimization of the Akaike information criterion. All patients who consent for participation in
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this study and complete at least two PF metrics will be included in statistical analysis. In the
primary analysis, all observations available will be used.
We will conduct secondary analyses, assessing the association between baseline patient
characteristics and baseline PF metrics using Spearman correlations and longitudinal PF metrics
using statistical modeling. Key baseline patient characteristics that will be explored as feasible
based on the distribution of the characteristics observed in the sample will include. cancer cohort
(breast vs. lymphoma); age (<65 vs. ≥65 years); physician-reported ECOG PS; patient-reported
ECOG PS; patient-reported role function, global health status/QOL, and HRQOL via the
EORTC QLQ-C17; PRO-CTCAE symptomatic adverse event grades; and FACIT GP5.
Association between longitudinal patient characteristics (patient-reported ECOG PS; patient-
reported role function, global health status/QOL, and HRQOL via the EORTC QLQ-C17; PRO-
CTCAE symptomatic adverse event grades; and FACIT GP5) and longitudinal PF metrics will
be explored using Spearman correlations at successive time points as well as statistical modeling
(bivariate linear mixed modeling).
Specific Aim 3: Statistical analysis will be primarily descriptive for the exit questionnaire
data. Continuous outcomes will be summarized using means, standard deviations, medians,
minimums, and maximums. Categorical outcomes will be summarized using frequencies and
relative frequencies.
Power considerations: Our targeted sample enrollment is 200 patients, which we expect will
allow the team to have data available for a given PF metric at early post-baseline timepoints (at
least the first 3 months) for at least 170 patients. Based on a prior study evaluating association
between PF as measured by the QLQ-C17 and a PGI-C item assessing physical condition
19, we
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anticipate 25% of patients to report worsening and the mean change in PF among these patients
to be -8.2 points. The remaining 75% of patients reporting no change or improvement had a
mean change in PF of 0.9 points (pooled standard deviation 15.0). Thus, with a sample size of
170 patients, this study has 92% power to detect a similar change as the prior study using a t-test
comparison with a two-sided alpha of 0.05. Statistical analysis will employ a modeling approach
across all time points and thus power estimation based on a single time point can be considered
conservative.
Missing data Missing data from patient questionnaires will be handled in a number of ways.
Missing items within a summary or scale score will be handled according to each questionnaire’s
published scoring algorithms. When summary or scale score data are missing, baseline
patient/disease characteristics will be compared between patients who do and do not provide data
for a given analysis and patterns of missing data will be graphically explored. All analyses will
first be completed using all available data, then by integrating missing categories for categorical
data and analyses completed using multiple imputation via chained equations (20 or more for
each analysis), and finally using pattern mixture models for longitudinal analyses. Output from
all analyses will be tabulated and descriptively compared to assess the degree to which missing
data impacts study results.
For all statistical analyses, p-values <0.05 will be considered statistically significant;
however, interpretation will take into consideration that type I error is not strictly controlled
across all planned analyses. For interpreting the clinical significance of effects, 0.2, 0.5, and 0.8
standard deviation (SD) effects will be considered as small, moderate, and large.
Data collection and management
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The Hugo platform will aggregate data from the EHR, PROs and wearables. At study
enrollment, patients provide Hugo access to their health portals by authenticating themselves
using their username and password. PerfO and clinician-reported ECOG will be among data
collected by the research assistant and entered into a secure REDCap database. Additionally,
clinical co-investigators will review the medical records of each patient directly for more
granular information on tolerability parameters, such as reasons for hospitalizations or dose
reductions, and these data are entered into the study REDCap database by the research assistant.
Patient involvement
Three patient-advocate co-investigators provided input on the design of the study, the
selection of PRO survey items, and timing of scheduled assessments. They also co-created a
“study welcome letter” to describe in patient-tailored language the purpose of the study, and they
have participated in the writing and review of this manuscript. Patient advocates were not
involved in the conduct of the study.
Study limitations
Although patients on this study can receive their cancer treatment at primary or local sites
as part of this clinical study, recruitment is limited to patients seen at least once at Mayo Clinic
or Yale clinical sites, limiting participation to patients who have the physical and financial ability
to access these tertiary cancer care centers. Most participants receive treatment at the primary
sites and may not be representative of a larger community oncology practice. We do not offer
patients a smartphone or other web-connected product if they do not have one, which may limit
participation, though smartphone adoption is high at 85% of American adults, including a
majority of those with low income and those living in rural areas, with minimal gaps by race and
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ethnicity.48 Some patients who already use a non-Fitbit wearable product or are apprehensive of
wearable data collection may decline participation. Lastly, we do not have formalized
technology support for patients over and above the research assistants in this study, which may
limit our ability to swiftly address technical issues related to Hugo or Fitbit.
Ethics and Dissemination
Institutional review board (IRB) approval was secured at Mayo Clinic, Yale University
and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Study results will be disseminated through
publications in general, and specialty medical journals and conferences.
Study Update
At the time of this publication, all sites have obtained local IRB approval and are enrolling
participants. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed study activation at both sites; enrollment in this
study began in January 2022. 123 participants have been enrolled at the time of this manuscript
submission.
Authors’ contributions
Conception or design of the work: PGK, GT, CPG, VB, MMJ, MD, MT, JSR, JDR, AB, LJ, BP,
ACD, KJR.
Planning for acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data: MD, LF, BNN, JDR, MF, ACD.
Screening, enrollment and health record review: GT, ECR, SH, JP, KJR, SES, CPG.
Drafting the work: GT, CPG.
Revising the work critically for important intellectual content: All authors
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Final approval of the version to be published: All authors.
Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the
accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved: GT and
CPG.
Funding statement:
This work was supported by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award [U01FD005938]
totaling $2,665,476 with 100 percent funded by FDA]/HHS. The contents are those of the
author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by
FDA/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
Competing interests
Dr. Thanarajasingam has received research funding from the from the Food and Drug
Administration for the Yale-Mayo Clinic Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and
Innovation (CERSI) (U01FD005938) that directly supports this work. She also receives grant
funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) U01 Tolerability Consortium.
Dr. Gross has received research funding from the NCCN Foundation (Astra-Zeneca) and
Genentech, as well as funding from Johnson and Johnson to help devise and implement new
approaches to sharing clinical trial data.
Over the past three years, Dr. Jeffery reports grant funding from the US Food and Drug
Administration, National Institutes on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Cancer Society, and the National Center
for Advancing Translational Sciences.
Dr. Ross currently receives research support through Yale University from Johnson and Johnson
to develop methods of clinical trial data sharing, from the Food and Drug Administration for the
Yale-Mayo Clinic Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI)
(U01FD005938), from the Medical Devices Innovation Consortium as part of the National
Evaluation System for Health Technology (NEST), from the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (R01HS022882), from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01HS025164, R01HL144644), and from Arnold Ventures for the
Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency (CRRIT); in addition, Dr. Ross
is an expert witness at the request of Relator's attorneys, the Greene Law Firm, in a qui tam suit
alleging violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute against Biogen Inc.
Ms. Ritchie currently receives research support through Yale University from Johnson &
Johnson to develop methods of clinical trial data sharing and from the US Food and Drug
Administration for the Yale-Mayo Clinic Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and
Innovation (CERSI) (U01FD005938).
Dr. Huntington has received consulting fees outside of this work from Janssen, Genentech,
AbbVie, Flatiron Health, BeiGene, AstraZeneca, ADC Therapeutics, Epizyme, Merck, Seattle
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Dr. Schellhorn has received consulting fees from Eisai, Celgene, SeaGen, and Cardinal Health.
She has previously received research funding to her institution from Genentech and Pfizer.
All other authors have no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose.
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Figures and Tables
Figure 1: Study Schema
Table 1. Schedule of Assessments
Standard 2-6 month intravenous chemotherapy treatment; total 9 months study follow up
Lead-
in BL W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 **
Clinician- reported
ECOG* X
Symptom atic AE
(PRO-CTCAE)
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
FACT GP5 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
PGI-S X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
PROMIS Physic al
Function SF 8c
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
EORTC QL Q-F1 7
Role Function only
X X X X X X X
PRO-ECOG X X X X X X X X X X X X
EORTC QL Q-F1 7 X X X X X
PGI-C X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
6MWT † X X
Exit Questionnaire X
Wearable Data X ¥ -> Continuous wearable data throughout
BL – baseline, W - week, M – month;
* at baseline (CRA to ensure ECOG is recorded at baseline by clinical provider), and where available at follow up
** - context dependent long-term follow-up,
† 6MWT at baseline and at M3 will be performed in clinic (with CRA) for patients treated at primary sites available for
assessment. The window for the M3 6MWT assessment is anytime during the 3
rd month.
¥ Lead-in time period of at least 24 hours prior to initiation of cancer-directed treatment
Highlighted time points are “high yield” time points for reminders and will include CRA phone calls to patient if PROs have not
been completed
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Appendices
Appendix (Supplementary Material) 1: Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for the In4M Study
1.1.1. Inclusion Criteria
1) Age 18 and over;
2) English- or Spanish-speaking;
3) Pregnant and non-pregnant patients are eligible for participation in this study
4) Eligible cancer type and planned intravenous cytotoxic chemotherapy regimen (defined
as including 1 or more cytotoxic agents)
5) ECOG Performance Score of < 3
6) Breast cancer patients
a) Patients with any stage breast cancer for whom a new intravenous cytotoxic
chemotherapy regimen is planned within the next 8 weeks (patients with
local/regional/distant recurrences are allowed; patients with concurrent/prior/future
immunotherapy/radiotherapy, targeted therapy, and endocrine therapy for breast
cancer are allowed)
7) Lymphoma patients
a) Lymphoma patients of any histology, stage or line of treatment planned to receive a
new intravenous cytotoxic containing chemotherapy regimen (patients planned to
receive radiation, maintenance chemotherapy, consolidation stem cell transplant or
chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy are allowed)
8) If patients are receiving the above standard therapies as part of a clinical trial which may
include a novel agent or combination, they are also eligible for the present study if the
therapeutic protocol permits enrollment in both studies
9) Willing and able to give consent and participate in study
10) Able to access a mobile smartphone or tablet or computer with web access every day to
complete study surveys; able to regularly upload data from the Fitbit to a in a way that it
can be transferred to Hugo.
11) Willing and able to perform an in-clinic 6-minute walk test (gait aides are permitted if
regularly used by the patient). If a patient is recruited remotely outside of Mayo Clinic
Rochester or Yale Smilow Cancer Center New Haven, 6-minute walk test may be
omitted.
12) Willing to use the health data sharing platform
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Potential subjects who do not meet all of the enrollment criteria will not be enrolled. Any
deviations from these criteria must be reported in accordance with IRB Policies and
Procedures.
1.1.2. Exclusion Criteria
1) Prior intravenous cytotoxic chemotherapy within 3 weeks prior to study enrollment
2) Excluded regimens (due to length of hospitalization required for chemotherapy
administration):
a) R-CODOX-M/IVAC,
b) DA-R-EPOCH (inpatient)
3) Excluded histology (due to length of hospitalization and inpatient predominant treatment
for required chemotherapy): primary central nervous system lymphoma
a) Other regimens with an anticipated high duration of inpatient care time, at PI
discretion
4) Lack of access to a mobile smartphone or tablet or computer with web access
5) Unable or unwilling to upload data from the Fitbit
6) Unable or unwilling to use the health data sharing platform
7) Unable to give consent and be enrolled
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