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Filter by:The main purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effectiveness of "nudges" to clinicians, to patients, or to both in increasing Tobacco Use Treatment Service (TUTS) referral and engagement; and to explore clinician, patient, inner setting (e.g., clinic), and outer setting (e.g., payment structures) mechanisms related to TUTS referral and engagement. The investigators will employ rapid-cycle approaches to optimize the framing of nudges to clinicians and patients prior to initiating the trial and mixed methods to explore contextual factors and mechanisms. The investigators will conduct a four-arm pragmatic cluster randomize clinical trial to test the effectiveness of nudges to clinicians, nudges to patients, or nudges to both in increasing TUTS referral and engagement in cancer patients who smoke, vs. usual care (UC). The investigators hypothesize that each of the implementation strategy arms will significantly increase TUTS referral and engagement compared to UC and that the combination of nudges to clinicians and to patients will be the most effective.
The lacking adherence to guidelines on prevention and treatment of different chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy induced toxicities is the reason why there are a potential incidence and duration increase of adverse events. It is clear the need of a collateral effect early recognition for an adequate clinical management and for limiting their intensity and duration. There is the need for a multicentre randomized clinical study in specific therapeutical settings (chemotherapy, target therapy, immunotherapy) assessing the impact of planned and ongoing patients' monitoring by nurses. The NICSO study foresees patient enrolment that is in adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer, colon, and lung; that is in chemotherapy or immunotherapy or with targeted therapy. Moreover, this working assesses toxicity differences (but also of QoL, number of PS access or non-planned medical examinations, number of hospitalization and number of recovery days) in patients that carried out a toxicity prevention and cure standard therapy in comparison with the standard assessment to which is added a periodic nursing phone intervention.
Oncologists are increasingly using genomic sequencing to diagnose and optimize care for their patients. A consequence of this technology is its capacity to detect a patient's risk for thousands of current and future conditions or diseases. Guidelines recommend doctors allow patients to choose which results they wish to receive before ordering the test. It is not feasible to counsel patients on the thousands of possible results because of the limited clinical resources and genomics expertise. Decision aids (DAs) can fill this gap, however there are no DAs to guide patients' decisions about results from genomic sequencing. A DA prototype was developed (GenomicsADvISER.com), the first DA of its kind. This study will transform the DA prototype into an interactive, adaptable and patient-centred digital decision support tool (Genetics ADvISER) via user-centred design methods. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Genetics ADvISER in an RCT with patients being offered results from genomic sequencing. Results of this trial will be used to establish whether the Genetics ADvISER is effective to use in practice. This could fill a critical clinical care gap, improve health outcomes and service use by reducing counselling burden as well as overuse, underuse and misuse - concerns of policy makers seeking to address the triple aims of health care.
Study investigating cancer blood samples on an iterative measurement systme
This is a prospective, multicentre study, considered as " non-RIPH ("Recherche n'Impliquant pas la Personne Humaine - Research that does not involve humans ". Indeed, the patient's participation in the study and the completion of the various questionnaires has no impact on patient's safety and is not likely to change patients' management. Patients accepting to take part to an early phase trial will be proposed to participate in the PALPHA-1 trial. They can accept or refuse to have palliative supportive care. The main objective of this study is to assess the reasons for accepting and refusing early palliative care in patients included in an early phase clinical trial. The secondary objectives will enable to describe and analyze the number (effective) and the rate (%) of acceptance and/or refusal of early palliative support, to assess patients' understanding and perception of the " combined " management by comparing the semantic content of the patient-investigator ecological interaction during the proposal for inclusion in the trial (i.e. what was explicitly said), with that of the semi-structured post-consultation inclusion interviews ( ie what the patients understood, perceived), to compare the quality of life and the anxiety-depression of patients according to their acceptance or refusal of the mixed care at the inclusion and at the end of the early phase trial, to compare the clinical, medical and socio-demographic characteristics of the patients, the overall survival of patients according to their acceptance or refusal of the combined management and finally for the patients accepting the Palliative Care Management (PCM), to describe throughout the study, the patients' compliance to palliative supportive care undertaken.
Palliative Care is active holistic care offered to people who are in intense suffering related to their health, resulting from a serious life-threatening illness, with a focus on improving the quality of life. Among the symptoms that cause suffering, physical pain has a prominent role in terms of prevalence and impact on well-being, especially in the subgroup of patients with terminal cancer. Myofascial Pain Syndrome may be one of the components of pain in cancer patients in palliative care. However, the literature is scarce in defining the prevalence of this condition in this population, and there is no evidence of the benefit of needling treatment with 1% lidocaine in these patients until now. The objectives of this study are to determinate the prevalence of myofascial pain syndrome and to evaluate the effectiveness of myofascial pain treatment with 1% lidocaine injection in reducing pain in palliative cancer patients, comparing it with a control group in usual care.
Determine if an oncology pictorial medication calendar will improve patient adherence to oncology supportive care medication regimens for adult patients receiving adjuvant or neo-adjuvant chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected individuals not only physiologically but also psychologically. The aim of this study is to examine the anxiety and depression status of cancer patients, individuals with non-cancer chronic diseases and healthy individuals with an online screening questionnaire during the COVID-19 pandemic period.
The study of LVGN6051-201 is designed to use a bridging dose escalation to quickly establish the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or the recommended dose for expansion (RDE) as well as the recommended Phase 2 dose(s) (RP2D) of LVGN6051, both as a single agent (monotherapy) and in combination with a fixed dose of anti-PD-1 antibody (Pembrolizumab) in the treatment of advanced or metastatic malignancy.
To-date, there is no evidence on qigong's effects for improving well-being of pre-frail and frail older cancer survivors. Our aim is to conduct a pilot study for testing out the feasibility and acceptability of a qigong intervention to the elderly cancer survivors.