Palliative Care in Improving Quality of Life in Patients With High Risk Primary or Recurrent Gynecologic Malignancies
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Conditions studied: Cervical Carcinoma, Ovarian Carcinoma, Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma, Recurrent Cervical Carcinoma, Recurrent Ovarian Carcinoma, Recurrent Uterine Corpus Carcinoma, Recurrent Vulvar Carcinoma, Uterine Corpus Cancer, Vulvar Carcinoma, Peritoneal Neoplasms
In brief
This randomized clinical trial studies a palliative care program in improving the quality of life of patients with high-risk gynecologic malignancies that is original or first tumor in the body (primary) or has come back (recurrent). Palliative care is care given to patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Studying a palliative care program may help doctors learn more about patients quality of life, use of healthcare services, and the relief of pain.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02578888
- Run by
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- People needed
- 95
- Starts
- 2015-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2019-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-09-17
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Women with of primary or recurrent diagnosis of ovarian, uterine, peritoneal, cervical or vulvar cancer with any of the following:
- < 30 % projected 5 year survival based on histopathological stage
- Non-pelvic recurrent malignancy
- Persistent or progressive disease despite primary treatment with surgery, chemotherapy or
- Palliative performance scale < 60
- Enrollment within 6 weeks of tumor board review
Where it is running
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine — The Bronx, New York, United States
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