Early Palliative Care With Standard Care or Standard Care Alone in Improving Quality of Life of Patients With Incurable Lung or Non-colorectal Gastrointestinal Cancer and Their Family Caregivers
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Official title
Randomized Study of Early Palliative Care Integrated With Standard Oncology Care Versus Standard Oncology Care Alone in Patients With Incurable Lung or Non-Colorectal Gastrointestinal Malignancies
Brief summary
Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.
The study intervention consists of the early integration of palliative care services into standard oncology care in an outpatient setting for patients with advanced lung and non-colorectal gastrointestinal malignancies who are not being treated with curative intent. The palliative care services provided to patients randomized to the intervention will be provided by board-certified physicians and/or advanced practice nurses and will focus on the following areas: (1) developing and maintaining the therapeutic relationship with the patients and family caregivers; (2) assessing and treating patient symptoms; (3) providing support and reinforcement of coping with advanced cancer in patients and family caregivers; (4) assessing and enhancing prognostic awareness and illness understanding in patients and family caregivers; (5) assisting with treatment decision-making; and (6) end-of-life care planning.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02349412
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 405 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 24, 2015
- Primary completion
- Jul 2, 2017
- Completion
- Jul 14, 2019
- Last update posted
- Feb 6, 2025
2015 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 23
- U.S. states
- 14
- U.S. cities
- 23
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center | La Jolla | California | 92093 | — |
| Queen's Medical Center | Honolulu | Hawaii | 96813 | — |
| University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center | Chicago | Illinois | 60637 | — |
| NorthShore University HealthSystem-Evanston Hospital | Evanston | Illinois | 60201 | — |
| NorthShore University HealthSystem-Glenbrook Hospital | Glenview | Illinois | 60026 | — |
| NorthShore University HealthSystem-Highland Park Hospital | Highland Park | Illinois | 60035 | — |
| University of Iowa/Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center | Iowa City | Iowa | 52242 | — |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02114 | — |
| Mercy Health Saint Mary's | Grand Rapids | Michigan | 49503 | — |
| Hennepin County Medical Center | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55415 | — |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester | Minnesota | 55905 | — |
| Park Nicollet Clinic - Saint Louis Park | Saint Louis Park | Minnesota | 55416 | — |
| Regions Hospital | Saint Paul | Minnesota | 55101 | — |
| Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center | Lebanon | New Hampshire | 03756 | — |
| North Shore-LIJ Health System/Center for Advanced Medicine | New Hyde Park | New York | 11040 | — |
| Columbia University/Herbert Irving Cancer Center | New York | New York | 10032 | — |
| Duke University Medical Center | Durham | North Carolina | 27710 | — |
| Altru Cancer Center | Grand Forks | North Dakota | 58201 | — |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | 73104 | — |
| Virginia Commonwealth University/Massey Cancer Center | Richmond | Virginia | 23298 | — |
| Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center | La Crosse | Wisconsin | 54601 | — |
| Marshfield Clinic | Marshfield | Wisconsin | 54449 | — |
| Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | 53226 | — |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Feb 6, 2025 · Synced Sep 8, 2026
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