Advanced Incurable Cancer Clinical Trial
— IZERZOOfficial title:
Reality Map of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care in Romanian and Swiss Cancer Centres
Verified date | July 2017 |
Source | Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Observational |
Palliative Care procedures should be integrated early in the course of disease of patients with advanced incurable cancer. With this study, where the investigators follow adult patients with incurable cancer over 6 months or until death (whatever occurs earlier), the investigators aim to identify patients' needs for Palliative Care interventions (like support in illness understanding and decision making, symptom management, concrete end-of-life preparation, and others) and their remembered delivery by health care professionals. The investigators also collect data on patients care (use of chemotherapy, intensive care in the last month of life) and quality of death and dying (assessed by post-death-interviews with bereaved relatives). The aim is to have a "reality map" on current integration of oncology and palliative care and to test if appropriate Palliative Care interventions predict a better outcome.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 308 |
Est. completion date | December 31, 2016 |
Est. primary completion date | December 31, 2016 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - stage IV cancer - over 18 years - minimal symptom burden in IPOS (at least 3 symptoms over or equal 2) - Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 1, 2, 3 Exclusion Criteria: - cognitively impaired - prognosis less than 1 month according to clinician |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Romania | Oncological Institute "Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta" | Cluj | |
Switzerland | Kantonsspital St.Gallen | St.Gallen |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen |
Romania, Switzerland,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Composite Endpoint | A composite endpoint, composed by the outcome indicators inappropriate anticancer care, repeated ER-admissions, high symptom burden (on IPOS), "aggressive" end-of-life-care, and bad quality of death and dying (QODD) | up to 6 months (or death, whichever occurs first) |