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Surgery is often a central curative treatment for gastrointestinal tumors. Surgical treatment of diagnosed cancer tumors is decided after a comprehensive assessment of the patient's physical status, radiological assessments and after careful evaluation at the multidisciplinary conference. Despite the careful preoperative assessment of patients for curative surgery, the planned operation may unexpectedly need to be canceled. Of the patients who were planned for curative resection for pancreatic cancer in 2021 in Sweden, 90% received the intended surgery, and 10% of planned surgery was canceled. The reason for this was disseminated cancer or locally advanced disease in which radical resection is considered impossible to carry out. A systematic review of knowledge reveals a significant lack of evidence regarding patient-centered research and aborted cancer surgery. The studies in the project have different study designs and methods, and include focus group interviews with staff, translation and validation of a questionnaire to measure care needs, estimation of supportive care needs and patient experiences. An improved understanding and knowledge of patients' preferences and needs is needed to design interventions that can improve health-related quality of life. This project is dedicated to studying patients undergoing aborted cancer surgery, with the aim of improving the quality of care and meeting patients' care needs.


Clinical Trial Description

The overall objective of this research project is to: - describe the patients experiences and assess supportive care needs following aborted cancer gastrointestinal surgery - increase knowledge of the healthcare professionals' experiences of aborted cancer surgery from a multi-professional and continuum of cancer care perspective - increase our clinical knowledge of patient preferences and healthcare professionals' perspective to develop tailored patient-centered interventions with the goal to improve quality of cancer care ;


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NCT number NCT05808712
Study type Observational
Source Linkoeping University
Contact Jenny Drott, PhD
Phone +46 732701839
Email Jenny.Drott@liu.se
Status Recruiting
Phase
Start date March 1, 2023
Completion date December 31, 2028

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