Early Palliative Care With Standard Care or Standard Care Alone in Improving Quality of Life of Patients With Incurable Lung or Non-colorectal Gastrointestinal Cancer and Their Family Caregivers
Completed · Phase 3
Conditions studied: Liver Cancer, Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Small Cell Lung Cancer, Extrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer, Malignant Mesothelioma, Pancreatic Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Gastric Cancer, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
In brief
The study intervention consists of the early integration of palliative care services into standard oncology care in an outpatient setting for patients with advanced lung and non-colorectal gastrointestinal malignancies who are not being treated with curative intent. The palliative care services provided to patients randomized to the intervention will be provided by board-certified physicians and/or advanced practice nurses and will focus on the following areas: (1) developing and maintaining the therapeutic relationship with the patients and family caregivers; (2) assessing and treating patient symptoms; (3) providing support and reinforcement of coping with advanced cancer in patients and family caregivers; (4) assessing and enhancing prognostic awareness and illness understanding in patients and family caregivers; (5) assisting with treatment decision-making; and (6) end-of-life care planning.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02349412
- Run by
- Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
- People needed
- 405
- Starts
- 2015-06-25
- Expected to finish
- 2019-07-15
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-02-07
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
Where it is running
- UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center — La Jolla, California, United States
- Queen's Medical Center — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- NorthShore University HealthSystem-Evanston Hospital — Evanston, Illinois, United States
- NorthShore University HealthSystem-Glenbrook Hospital — Glenview, Illinois, United States
- NorthShore University HealthSystem-Highland Park Hospital — Highland Park, Illinois, United States
- University of Iowa/Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Mercy Health Saint Mary's — Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
- Hennepin County Medical Center — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Mayo Clinic — Rochester, Minnesota, United States
- Park Nicollet Clinic - Saint Louis Park — Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States
- Regions Hospital — Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
- North Shore-LIJ Health System/Center for Advanced Medicine — New Hyde Park, New York, United States
- Columbia University/Herbert Irving Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States
- Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
- Altru Cancer Center — Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
- Virginia Commonwealth University/Massey Cancer Center — Richmond, Virginia, United States
- Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center — La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
- Marshfield Clinic — Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States
- Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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