Early Palliative Care in Patient With Acute Leukaemia (Pablo Hemato)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Leukaemia in Relapse

Treatments: Other: Supportive /palliative care intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02631811

69HCL15_0305

Details and patient eligibility

About

Several studies have shown that patients with acute leukemia have many symptoms during disease These symptoms decrease the quality of life and may even appear or worsen other symptoms such as depression Several studies point to the involvement of supportive care and palliative care is delayed in these patients The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact on the quality of life of an early and standardized involvement of a support / palliative care team for patients with acute leukemia in first relapse compared to a control group .

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• > 18 years old
• acute lymphoblastic or myeloblastic leukemia at first relapse and diagnosed within 8 weeks before inclusion.
• Patients in whom a curative strategy (transplant) is not considered.
• patients older that 75 years at the diagnosis
• informed signed consent

Exclusion criteria

• unable to answer the questionnaire
• psychiatric disorders other than depression
• persons under guardianship

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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49 participants in 2 patient groups

Supportive /palliative care intervention

Experimental group

Description:

patients will be supported by a multidisciplinary palliative specialist team

Treatment:

Other: Supportive /palliative care intervention

usual medical follow up

No Intervention group

Description:

patients will be supported by the support care team if asked by the oncologist