Clinical Trial Navigation to Increase Participation and Diversity in Cancer Clinical Trials

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Conditions studied: Hematopoietic and Lymphatic System Neoplasm, Malignant Solid Neoplasm

In brief

This clinical trial evaluates a clinical trial navigation intervention to help increase participation and diversity in cancer clinical trials. Cancer clinical trials are an important part of the development of treatments, and improved patient care and outcomes. Despite this, only a small number of cancer patients participate in clinical trials. There are many different items that contribute to low clinical trial participation, including health-related social needs (HRSN) and financial burden. Guiding participation toward understanding, inclusion, diversity, and equity for cancer clinical trials (GUIDE), is a program that uses a trained clinical trial navigator, or "Guide", to work with identified potential cancer clinical trial patients to help them recognize and remove HRSN and financial barriers preventing clinical trial participation. A clinical trial navigation intervention, like GUIDE, may help increase participation and diversity in cancer clinical trials.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06484595

Run by

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

People needed

100

Starts

2024-09-23

Expected to finish

2026-01-26

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients ≥ 18 years of age
• Identified as potentially eligible for an open clinical trial by clinical trial pre-screening
• Have ≥ 1 health related social need, defined by
• Food insecurity, housing instability, transportation challenges, or financial instability documented in the Supportive Cancer Care Questionnaire in Epic Electronic Medical Record (EPIC), OR
• Concerns about insurance, cost of trial, additional trial visits, travel, transportation, childcare/eldercare, OR unable to take time off work, etc., as documented by clinical trial pre-screening (CTPS) or provider, OR
• Medicaid insurance (including Medicaid pending) documented in EPIC, OR
• Respond affirmatively (yes, maybe, possibly, I think so, etc.) to the social needs screening question asked by our Research Coordinator: "During your cancer treatment, are you interested in assistance with transportation, food, housing, financial resources, or other barriers to treatment?"
• Able to speak English

You may not qualify if…

• Unable to speak English
• Children, adolescents, and teens under the age of 18 years
• Patients participating on clinical trials providing financial navigation, such as clinicaltrials.gov identifier (CT ID): NCT04960787
• Patients refusing to sign Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) authorization

Where it is running

• Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium — Seattle, Washington, United States

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