The MIND-BC Study: MIND Diet for Breast Cancer Cognition
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
In plain language
This study tests the MIND diet to see if it helps breast cancer survivors with memory or thinking problems linked to cancer or its treatment. It has two 12-week parts: a diet change phase and a phase to keep up the changes.
This fully, powered efficacy RCT, the MIND diet for Breast Cancer Cognition (MIND-BC), will evaluate the MIND diet in a rigorous, highly controlled academic cancer center. We will recruit breast cancer survivors reporting CRCI with a MIND diet score \< 8, based on a previously devised 14-item diet questionnaire designed to detect inadequate diet with respect to brain health (scores range from 0 to 14, with lower scores indicating a less adequate diet).14 Breast cancer survivors will have recently completed adjuvant treatment (i.e., 6 months to three years previously), to ensure that perceived cognitive impairment is likely chronic and due to cancer. To achieve maximal effect, the study consists of two 12-week phases 1) intervention phase, 2) maintenance phase.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- Be older than 18 and have had stage I–III (1–3) breast cancer.
- Be able to speak and read English and eat food by mouth.
- Be able to understand the study and agree to take part.
- Have no mental health or brain disorder that would keep you from taking part.
- Report memory or thinking problems in the past week that you link to cancer or its treatment, rated at least 2 on a 0–4 scale.
- Have a MIND diet score below 10 out of 14. Lower scores mean a less brain-healthy diet. The study summary says below 8, so ask the study team which limit applies.
- Be willing to follow the MIND diet.
- Have finished adjuvant treatment—extra cancer treatment after the main treatment—6 months to 3 years ago.
Who can't join
- You cannot join if you do not meet all the requirements above.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Previously diagnosed with stage I-III breast cancer. * Able to speak and read English. * Able to consume foods orally. * \>18 years of age. * Able to provide informed consent. * Have no documented or observable psychiatric or neurological disorder that would interfere with study participation (e.g., schizophrenia). * Report 'somewhat' to 'very much' cognitive impairment in the past week (i.e., a score ≥ 2 on a 0-4 scale) that they attribute to cancer or its treatment. * Report a MIND diet score \< 10 (range 0 to 14, higher score equates to higher diet quality). * Willing to consume the MIND diet. * Completed adjuvant treatment 6 months to three years previously. Exclusion Criteria: * Not meeting all of the inclusion criteria.
Study sites (1)
FL
- Moffitt Cancer Center · Tampa, FL 33612Sylvia Crowder, PhD · Principal investigatorHeather Jim, PhD · Sub-investigatorTiffany Carson, PhD · Sub-investigatorHyo Han, MD · Sub-investigatorMore trials in Tampa