Nurse-Provided Care or Standard Care in Treating Patients With Pancreatic Cancer

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Conditions studied: Fatigue, Nausea and Vomiting, Pain, Pancreatic Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Meeting with a nurse to assess symptoms and quality of life may be more effective than standard care in treating patients with pancreatic cancer. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying nurse-provided care to see how well it works compared with standard care in treating patients with pancreatic cancer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00902733

Run by

City of Hope Medical Center

People needed

125

Starts

2008-07-01

Expected to finish

2010-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2010-10-01

Who can join

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

Where it is running

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

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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