Quality of Life Among Long-Term Survivors of Resected Gastric Cancer

Completed

Conditions studied: Gastric Cancer

In brief

The purpose of this study is to find out how you feel about the quality of your life after having had surgery to remove your stomach tumor. Some patients continue to experience different problems after stomach surgery, even when the surgery was more than three years ago. The purpose of this study is to find out the specific things that may continue to affect patients' quality of life after a major operation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00598546

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

212

Starts

2004-09-01

Expected to finish

2009-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-07-10

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Male and female patients
• Age 18 or older
• Diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the stomach
• Patient had curative surgical resection, including proximal, distal, or total gastrectomy
• Patient is at least three years NED
• Provide informed consent
• Fluent in English

You may not qualify if…

• Psychiatric or psychological abnormality precluding informed consent or ability to complete questionnaires
• Non-psychiatric disorder causing a lack of capacity to give consent or an inability to complete questionnaires (ie dementia, stroke)

Where it is running

• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States

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