Cancer Symptom Data From Multiple Treatment Centers

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer

In brief

Background: \- Cancer and cancer treatments can cause symptoms and side effects. Pain, fatigue, and emotional distress are three common symptoms. Accurate reporting of these symptoms can improve treatment methods and outcomes. Even though symptom reporting is important to treatment, there is no method to collect and compare patient data from multiple cancer care centers. Researchers want to develop a method for collecting cancer patient symptom information from multiple centers. This method may help improve cancer treatment at hospitals and other care centers. Objectives: \- To collect patient-reported symptom information from multiple cancer care centers. Eligibility: * Individuals at least 21 years of age who were treated for breast or colon cancer in the past year. * Participants will come from one of the participating cancer care centers. Design: * Participants will answer a short questionnaire about their symptoms during cancer treatment. Questions will ask about symptom severity and experiences. Other questions will ask how well the doctors and nurses managed the symptoms. * Participant responses will be compared with other medical and personal information. This information may include cancer type, age at diagnosis, and type of treatment. * Treatment will not be provided as part of this study.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01547845

Run by

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

People needed

2517

Starts

2012-02-10

Expected to finish

2019-05-23

Last updated by the study team

2019-05-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients will be excluded for the following reasons:Patient is ineligible for one of the 5 RQRS breast or colon quality indicators
• Patient is deceased at the time of sampling
• Patient has Stage IV cancer

Where it is running

• St. Joseph's Orange — Orange, California, United States
• Penrose Cancer Center — Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
• Hartford Hospital — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
• Christiana Care Health Services — Newark, Delaware, United States
• Northside Hospital — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• St. Joseph's/Candler Health System — Savannah, Georgia, United States
• Our Lady of the Lake/ Mary Bird Perkins — Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
• The Cancer Institute Catholic Health Initiatives — Towson, Maryland, United States
• Billings Clinical Cancer Center — Billings, Montana, United States
• CHI, St. Fancis — Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
• CHI, Good Samaritan — Kearney, Nebraska, United States
• Lehigh Valley Hospital — Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
• Spartanburg Regional Hospital — Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
• Sanford Health — Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
• Ascension Health Systems — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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