International Travel Patterns and Risk Behaviour of Breast Cancer, Lymphoma Patients and Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer, Lymphoma

In brief

This study also aims to raise awareness among both patients and health-care providers about the importance of pre-travel health consultation and preventive interventions prior to international travel. Through appropriate health counseling, cancer patients will have less risk of having travel -related health complications and thus have a better quality of life and overall improved sense of wellbeing.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01111201

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

26

Starts

2010-04-01

Expected to finish

2012-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-06-01

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) recipients
• Age >18 years
• Status post bone marrow transplant within last five years Breast Cancer patients: Criteria 1 and Criteria 2 and/or 3
• Female age >18 years and current or past history of breast cancer
• Received systemic chemotherapy in the last five years
• Metastatic breast cancer disease (stage IV) Lymphoma: Criteria 1 and Criteria 2 and/or 3
• Age >18 years and current or past history of lymphoma
• Received systemic chemotherapy within 5 years
• Had active disease at any time within the last 5 years

You may not qualify if…

• Patients age< 18 years
• Breast cancer and lymphoma patients in clinical remission in the past 5 years
• Patients unable to fill the questionnaire due to language barriers

Where it is running

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

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