Family Quality of Life Among Families With a Member Who is a Cancer Patient

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Solid Tumor

In brief

RATIONALE: Developing a questionnaire that can be used to assess the quality of life among people who have a family member with cancer may help the study of cancer in the future. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying quality of life among families with a member who is a cancer patient.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00544336

Run by

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

People needed

366

Starts

2007-08-01

Expected to finish

2009-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-09-10

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients diagnosed with any local, advanced, or metastatic cancer that has required more than a simple surgical procedure
• Ten families with an adult patient with breast, prostate, lung, colon, or head and neck cancer are interviewed for step 1 portion of the study
• An available adult family member willing to participate in the study
• The term family is defined broadly to include adults over 21 years of age, considered by the cancer patient as a family member, who provides care or support and/or shares the cancer experience with the patient
• Family members do not need to be biologically related to the patient or related through marriage, and may or may not live in the same house with the patient

You may not qualify if…

• Able to read, write, and speak English
• PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
• See Disease Characteristics

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center - Cool Springs — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center at Franklin — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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