Effects of Palliative Care on Quality of Life and Symptom Control in Patients With Stage I, Stage II, or Stage IIIA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer That Can Be Removed by Surgery

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Conditions studied: Lung Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Palliative care may be more effective than standard care in improving quality of life and symptoms in patients with lung cancer. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying the effects of palliative care on quality of life and symptom control in patients with stage I, stage II, or stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer that can be removed by surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00823667

Run by

City of Hope Medical Center

People needed

198

Starts

2009-09-01

Expected to finish

2014-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-09-19

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of stage I-IIIA resectable NSCLC - Undergoing either lobectomy, pneumonectomy, segmentectomy, or wedge resection
• Living within a 50 mile radius of the City of Hope
• No previous cancer within the past 5 years

You may not qualify if…

• Diagnosis of stage II-III NSCLC that are not resectable based on clinical and individual characteristics (co-morbidities, extent of disease, bulky mediastinal lymph nodes [N2], etc.)
• NSCLC patients receiving radiofrequency ablation

Where it is running

• City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center — Duarte, California, United States
• City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center — Duarte, California, United States

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