Clinical Predictors of Survival in Cancer Patients With Metastatic Solid Tumors

Completed

Conditions studied: Cancer

In brief

The use of performance status and LDH in combination can predict patient survival more accurately than physician clinical impression or the patients' own feelings about their survival

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00322634

Run by

New Mexico Cancer Research Alliance

People needed

25

Starts

2006-02-01

Expected to finish

2011-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-09-19

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• All patients must be at least 18 years of age
• All patients must have documented incurable metastatic cancer
• All patients must have exhausted any treatments which are known to prolong survival in their disease, or have elected not to receive further life-prolonging therapy. Specifically, patients with the following are eligible:
• Non-small cell lung cancer patients after third systemic therapy
• Small cell lung cancer patients after second systemic therapy
• Breast cancer patients after third cytotoxic therapy (does not include hormonal therapy)
• Colorectal cancer patients after second systemic therapy
• Hormone refractory prostate cancer patients after first cytotoxic therapy
• Cancer of unknown primary
• Pancreatic cancer patients after first systemic therapy
• The use of systemic (chemotherapy, immunotherapy) or local treatments (XRT) for palliation of symptoms is allowed
• Patients with a history of previous cancers are allowed
• Patients with a history of other significant disease (e.g. heart disease, COPD, etc.) are allowed
• All patients must sign informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with acute or chronic leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, or non-Hodgkins lymphoma are excluded
• Patients who do not sign informed consent are excluded

Where it is running

• Hematology Oncology Associates — Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
• Radiation Oncology Associates — Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
• University of New Mexico — Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
• New Mexico Cancer Care Associates — Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
• St. Vincent Regional Medical Center — Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

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