What Matters Most: Choosing the Right Breast Cancer Surgery for You
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Conditions studied: Breast Cancer
In brief
What Matters Most is a study that aims to determine how best to help women of lower socioeconomic status make high-quality decisions about early stage breast cancer treatments. What Matters Most will be comparing two decision aids used in the clinic visit to usual care (what normally happens in the clinic). The first decision aid (Option Grid) presents evidence-based information about lumpectomy and mastectomy in a tabular format using text only. The second decision aid (Picture Option Grid) presents evidence-based information about lumpectomy and mastectomy using pictures, pictographs and simplified text. What Matters Most aims to show that the interventions can reduce disparities in decision-making and treatment choice between women of high and low SES.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03136367
- Run by
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- People needed
- 571
- Starts
- 2017-09-18
- Expected to finish
- 2019-05-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-01-05
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Assigned female at birth;
- 18 years and older;
- Confirmed diagnosis (via biopsy) of early stage breast cancer (stages I-IIIA);
- Eligible for both breast-conserving surgery and mastectomy based on medical records and clinician's opinion before surgery;
- Spoken English, Spanish, or Mandarin Chinese.
You may not qualify if…
- Transgender men and women;
- Women who have undergone prophylactic mastectomy;
- Women with visual impairment;
- Women with a diagnosis of severe mental illness or severe dementia;
- Women with inflammatory breast carcinoma.
Where it is running
- Washington University in St. Louis — St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
- Bellevue Hospital Center — New York, New York, United States
- NYU Langone Medical Center — New York, New York, United States
- Montefiore Medical Center — The Bronx, New York, United States
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