Educational Interventions for Patients With DCIS

DCIS Clinical Trial

Official title: A Randomized Trial for Educational Interventions for Patients With DCIS Actually Making Treatment Decisions

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding an educational intervention, in the form of a decision board, which outlines the risks and benefits of treatment options for DCIS, at the time of the first surgical consultation will improve decision making for women with DCIS.

Clinical Trial Description

• The decision board explains the risks and benefits of mastectomy, excision and radiation, excision, radiation, and tamoxifen, excision alone, and excision without radiation and tamoxifen for women with DCIS.

• Patients will receive a decision board to take home for review. Two fifteen-minute telephone interviews will be conducted, one approximately one week after enrollment and one 2 months after enrollment.

• In the phone interviews, patients will asked to complete a brief survey. This survey will ask abou DCIS in general, the patient's treatment decisions, their feelings, as well as their experience with the decision board.

• This study will take about 2 months. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• DCIS

• NCT number: NCT00148655
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 2003
• Completion date: August 2006