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NCT number NCT02233842
Other study ID # 140189
Secondary ID 14-C-0189
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received September 6, 2014
Last updated August 28, 2015
Start date September 2014
Est. completion date August 2015

Study information

Verified date August 2015
Source National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Federal Government
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Background:

- People who have cancer might have more medical problems if they smoke. Some studies show that smoking even makes cancer treatment less effective. Researchers want to teach people about how tobacco use affects people after a cancer diagnosis. They want to come up with questions for people who have cancer and who have survived cancer. The questions will be about using cigarettes and other tobacco products and about second-hand smoke.

The questions will be used to understand how using tobacco affects people with cancer before, during, and after treatment. This will help doctors plan how to treat people with cancer and create programs to help people quit smoking in the future.

Objective:

- To evaluate and refine questions that assess tobacco use.

Eligibility:

- Adults age 21 or older who have cancer or are cancer survivors. The cancer can be at any site and any stage.

Design:

- This study will take about 1 hour.

- Participants will meet one-on-one with an interviewer. They will fill out a questionnaire and talk about the questions. Participants will explain how easy or hard it was to answer the questions and how they decided on their answers.

- All participants will be asked the same or very similar questions. Specific questions will be based on the participant s own experiences with tobacco products.

- There will be no follow-up activities.


Description:

Background:

Studies comparing cancer patients who smoke cigarettes at the time of diagnosis to former or never smokers have demonstrated increased difficulty with surgical wound healing and more treatment morbidity; reduced radiation and chemotherapy efficacy; reduced time to recurrence, progression, and second primary cancers; and increased mortality. Some studies have found that smoking interacts with cancer therapy efficacy.

Cigarette smoking is prevalent among patients with lung and head and neck cancers, with rates as high as 40% to 60% as of the time of diagnosis. The rate of smoking among cancer survivors has been estimated as 21% for lung cancer survivors and 39% for survivors of other cancers.(11)

Only 22% of NCI-funded phase III trials conducted by Cooperative Groups record patients cigarette smoking status among patients at the time of enrollment, and 4% record cigarette smoking status during follow-up.

We need to examine the impact of tobacco use on a wider range of therapeutic regimens and settings, with more detailed longitudinal tobacco use assessment. Research in this area is impeded by inadequate assessment of tobacco use after cancer diagnosis and a lack of valid, harmonized measures that are tailored to the trajectory of cancer diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.(15) The NCI-AACR Cancer Patient Tobacco Use Assessment Task Force formed in 2013 to develop recommendations for assessing tobacco use by cancer patients. The long- range goal of the Task Force is to advance the state of knowledge about the effect of tobacco use after a cancer diagnosis, to inform cancer treatment decision-making and to guide patients and providers regarding the timing and clinical significance of tobacco cessation.

Objectives:

To evaluate and refine proposed questionnaire items that assess tobacco use.

Eligibility:

Cancer patients with any disease site, stage, and extent of prior therapy and age greater than or equal to 21 years.

Design:

This study will evaluate and refine proposed questionnaire items that assess tobacco use in the cancer patient and survivor population. This study is purely qualitative. No research hypotheses will be tested in this study. There will be no therapy, administration of agent(s), or imaging administered as part of this study. Participants will only be asked to answer questions and then discuss their answers to the questions.

Patients who consent will participate in a session that will last up to one hour. They will complete a questionnaire about tobacco use and answer debriefing questions so that the interviewer can assess question comprehension, ease of answering, and accuracy of response.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 30
Est. completion date August 2015
Est. primary completion date August 2015
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 21 Years and older
Eligibility - INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Patients with any prior confirmed cancer diagnosis being treated or followed at the Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, Maryland, will be eligible.

3.1.1 Cancer patients with any disease site, stage, and extent of prior therapy will be eligible.

3.1.2 Patients age 21 years old and over will be eligible. The items are intended for use with an

adult population, so we need to test with representatives of that population.

3.1.3 Additional eligibility criteria:

- Individuals must be able to understand and willing to answer items about their own tobacco use.

- Individuals must be able to read and speak English. For purposes of this study, we will limit participation to adults who can self-consent and self-report in English (vs. only being able to respond with the aid of a translator). The materials have been developed in English; this is intended to be cognitive testing of an English language questionnaire. (If a Spanish translation of the items will be developed in the future, a separate cognitive testing effort will be needed to ensure cultural equivalence of the items.)

3.1.4 Participants must be able to understand and be willing to sign a written informed consent

document. All participants will be asked to provide explicit consent.

3.1.5 Participants are eligible whether they have never used tobacco products of any type, used any type of tobacco previously, or are current tobacco users of any type. (Participant recruitment will be designed to enroll a variety of patients with respect to tobacco use.)

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

None. (Patients may have already begun protocol treatment.)

INCLUSION OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES:

Both men and women of all races and ethnic groups are eligible for participation in testing of the items. In fact, to the extent possible, we will try to include diversity of demographic characteristics (age, race, gender, education level).

Study Design

Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional


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Locations

Country Name City State
United States National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda Maryland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary To evaluate and refine proposed questionnaire Last subject interviewed No
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