Decisions About Cancer Screening in Alzheimer's Disease

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Conditions studied: Cancer, Breast, Alzheimer Disease

In brief

The Decisions about Cancer screening in Alzheimer's Disease (DECAD) study tests if an evidence-based decision aid for dementia caregivers can support decision-making about mammography and improve the quality of medical decision-making about breast cancer screening. This large randomized controlled trial will recruit up to 450 dyads (900 individual participants) of older women with dementia and a family caregiver, for a goal of 426 dyad baselines (852 individual participants).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03282097

Run by

Indiana University

People needed

442

Starts

2017-12-01

Expected to finish

2024-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-08-11

Who can join

Age: 75 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Parkview Health — Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
• Alzheimer's Association — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• Eskenazi Health — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• IU Health — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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