Discussing Stopping Cancer Screening and Prognosis With Older Adults

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Conditions studied: Cancer Screening

In brief

Guidelines recommend not screening adults with \<10-year life expectancy for cancer; however, primary care physicians feel uncomfortable talking to older adults about prognosis. The investigators aim to determine whether providing PCPs with scripts on patient prognosis and older adults with information on their prognosis would be useful when recommending stopping cancer screening.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03480282

Run by

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

People needed

90

Starts

2017-10-03

Expected to finish

2021-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2024-01-30

Who can join

Age: 76 and older, up to 89. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• English-speaking
• Aged 76 to 89 years
• Scheduled for a routine visit or physical with their PCP in the next 3-12 weeks
• Patient aged 76-79 must have a least one Charlson Comorbidity
• Patient must have undergone CRC screening within the last 10 years
• Women only: patient must have undergone mammography screening within the last 3 years

You may not qualify if…

• older adults with dementia
• older adults with a history of colon cancer
• older adults whose last colonoscopy was read as abnormal
• older women who have a history of breast cancer
• older adults whose PCP has already had 5 patients participate in the study
• older women whose last mammogram was read as abnormal

Where it is running

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• BIDMC Affiliated Physicians Group — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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