Fatigue in Emergency Center Patients

Stopped early

Conditions studied: Advanced Cancer, Hematologic Malignancy, Fatigue

In brief

1. To describe fatigue severity and its related symptom clusters in cancer patients who are seeking emergency care for fever, pain, shortness of breath, or cancer therapy-related gastrointestinal toxicities. 2. To describe inflammatory cytokine profiles in cancer patients who are seeking emergency care for fever, pain, shortness of breath, or cancer therapy-related gastrointestinal toxicities. 3. To determine the type of cytokines that are associated with fatigue severity in cancer patients, with or without cancer treatment, in the early phase of infection, as well as in patients with pain, shortness of breath, or cancer therapy-related gastrointestinal toxicities.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00504985

Run by

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

People needed

14

Starts

2005-08-01

Expected to finish

2008-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-08-01

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patients must be admitted to the Emergency Center with a diagnosis of cancer confirmed by pathology (either hematologic malignancies or solid tumors).
• Patients with either hematologic malignancies or solid tumors must either be currently undergoing active cancer treatment (received chemotherapy, radiotherapy, chemoradiotherapy, blood or bone morrow transplant, surgery, immunotherapy anytime during the past month) or not receiving any cancer treatments in past month.
• Patient's chief complaint upon admission to the EC must be one or more of the following four conditions: a. fever (38.3°C or higher) in past 24 hours b. pain c.any chemotherapy-related GI toxicities (such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or constipation) d.shortness of breath
• Patients must be able to read and write English
• Patients must agree to participate and must sign the Informed Consent
• Patients must be 18 years or older (minimal numbers of children are evaluated in the EC)
• Patients must be able to complete the survey tool independently (without input or influence from their caregivers).
• Patients whose performance status allows them to complete the survey (i.e., patients who do not have altered mental/cognitive status, and patients without emergent illness and hemodynamic instability---for example, status epilepticus, sepsis, cardiac arrest, and any life-threatening condition).

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who were already enrolled on this protocol in a previous visit to this EC will not be enrolled again, regardless of their reasons for the current EC visit (same or different reason).

Where it is running

• U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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