Aging and Family Outcomes in Supportive Care of Advanced Cancer Patients

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Conditions studied: Aging, Neoplasms

In brief

The diagnosis of advanced, incurable cancer at different stages of the adult life span holds a variety of meanings for family members who often must play critical roles in patient care and decision-making. Family caregivers are greatly affected by the diagnosis and treatment of late-stage cancer in a loved one and may find it difficult to meet the demands of taking care of their loved one through end-of-life care and taking care of their own well-being. This grant provides funding to examine processes and outcomes of the intervention for family caregivers of advanced cancer patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00106067

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

559

Starts

2004-06-01

Expected to finish

2008-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients diagnosed within 1 year with advanced cancer (stage IV), aged 40 years or older.
• Patients must be cognitively intact at time of enrollment.
• Patient need not have family care-giver to be enrolled, but if there is one, FCG is enrolled with the patient. FCG need not be 40 years of age.

You may not qualify if…

• Less than stage IV cancer, stage IV cancer diagnosed over 1 year previously or younger than 40 years of age.

Where it is running

• Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH — Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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