Early Intervention vs. Standard Palliative Care in Improving End-of-Life Care in Advanced Cancer Patients
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Official title
Improving Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer
Brief summary
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RATIONALE: Palliative care may help patients with advanced cancer live more comfortably. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying an early intervention palliative care program to see how well it works compared to a standard care program in improving end-of-life care in patients with advanced lung , gastrointestinal, genitourinary, or breast cancer.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00253383
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 329 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- counseling intervention Other
- educational intervention Other
- psychosocial assessment and care Procedure
- quality-of-life assessment Procedure
Other · Procedure
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 2003 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Sep 2013 (Actual)
- Completion
- Sep 2013 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Dec 19, 2014
2003 – 2013
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center | Lebanon | New Hampshire | 03756-0002 | — |
| Veterans Affairs Medical Center - White River Junction | White River Junction | Vermont | 05009 | — |
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