Palliative Care in Improving Quality of Life and Symptoms in Patients With Stage III-IV Pancreatic or Ovarian Cancer

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Conditions studied: Recurrent Ovarian Epithelial Cancer, Recurrent Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor, Recurrent Pancreatic Cancer, Stage III Pancreatic Cancer, Stage IIIA Ovarian Epithelial Cancer, Stage IIIA Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor, Stage IIIB Ovarian Epithelial Cancer, Stage IIIB Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor, Stage IIIC Ovarian Epithelial Cancer, Stage IIIC Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor, Stage IV Ovarian Epithelial Cancer, Stage IV Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor, Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer

In brief

This randomized clinical trial studies palliative care in improving quality of life and symptoms in patients with stage III-IV pancreatic or ovarian cancer. Palliative therapy may help patients with advanced pancreatic or ovarian cancer live more comfortably.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01927393

Run by

City of Hope Medical Center

People needed

0

Starts

2014-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-12-23

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of pancreatic or ovarian cancer
• Confirmed stage III or IV disease
• Patients who are within one year from initial diagnosis
• Able to read or understand English-this is included because most of the patient-reported outcome measures are not validated in linguistically diverse populations; the intent is to adapt and test the intervention in a future study with linguistically diverse populations
• Ability to read and/or understand the study protocol requirements, and provide written informed consent

Where it is running

• City of Hope Medical Center — Duarte, California, United States

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