Effects of Bright-light Exposure Combined With Specific Exercise Training (BEST) Program in Patients With Cancer

This study plans to investigate the effectiveness of six-week light exposure combined with an exercise training program on improving sleep-wake rhythm, physical and mental symptoms, quality of life, one-year recurrence rate, and one-year survival rate of patients with lung and esophageal cancer. Two groups, parallel, randomly assigned clinical trials, long-term follow-up, repeated measurement (pre-test, 6th week, 12th week, 6th month, 12th month, five times in total), and a design of single center recruitment. The experimental group receiving an intervention comprised six weeks of light exposure combined with exercise training. The active control group receiving six weeks of stretching exercise. With a double-blind study design of participant blind and outcomes assessor blind, subjects were recruited from the thoracic surgery clinic and thoracic surgery ward of a medical center in northern Taiwan.