Access to Single-Fraction Palliative Radiation Therapy in Cancer Patients Enrolled in Hospice (SFPRT)

Care Partners

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer Metastatic

Treatments: Radiation: Single-Fraction Palliative Radiation Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04049188

00019460

20181015

Details and patient eligibility

About

Feasibility study to report on the impact of ACCESS of single-fraction radiation therapy on cancer patients with bone metastases enrolled in hospice care.

Full description

Hospice care for terminally ill patients with metastatic cancer improves quality of life, pain control, and potentially also survival when patients are enrolled early.1-3 However, hospice programs are often seen by patients and their caregivers as the last resort after exhaustion of all effective treatment options. The need to revoke active treatment (for all hospice patients with cancer outside of the VA system) discourages hospice enrollment.

This study aims to understand and analyze barriers to access specifically for short course palliative radiation therapy in cancer patients enrolled in hospice.

Enrollment: 31 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Solid Tumor Malignancies and Multiple Myeloma with Bone Metastases and Associated Bone Pain Enrolled in Hospice

Exclusion criteria

• Decisionally-Impaired Subjects, Pregnant Women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 1 patient group

Single-Fraction Palliative RT

Experimental group

Description:

Single-Fraction Palliative Radiation Therapy Adminstration

Treatment:

Radiation: Single-Fraction Palliative Radiation Therapy