Do Patients With Colorectal Cancer Understand That Their Family is at Risk?

Stopped early

Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer

In brief

The purpose of this study is to assess whether patients with colorectal cancer understand that their first-degree relatives are at increased risk of getting the cancer themselves and therefore should be screened early. Among patients who do understand the risks to their family, we plan to determine who they identify as the source of their information and whether they have acted upon this information and advised family members to be screened. We hypothesize that many patients with colorectal cancer do not have a correct understanding of the risks to their first-degree relatives and the recommendations that they be screened early. If this hypothesis is shown to be true, it can be used to direct improved and more diligent patient education. This, in turn, will hopefully increase the low screening rates among first-degree relatives, and, thereby, save lives in this high-risk population.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00145860

Run by

University of Chicago

People needed

650

Starts

2002-04-01

Expected to finish

2005-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-09-05

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patients who were diagnosed with CRC and received first treatment here or elsewhere and patients who were diagnosed elsewhere and received their first treatment here. All are currently followed here and still alive.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients in the registry who are not followed here, patients with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, patients with Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer, and patients with no siblings or children.

Where it is running

• The University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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