Follow-up After Surgery for Colon Cancer. General Practice vs. Surgical-based Follow-up? (ONKOLINK)

University Hospital of North Norway

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colon Cancer

Treatments: Other: ca coli follow-up by GP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00572143

P-REK NORD 79/2006

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to clarify cost effectiveness and quality of life issues among colon cancer patients followed up in a hospital setting or by their GP's.Statement of study hypothesis:Postoperative follow up of colon cancer patients (according to national guidelines) by general practitioners will not have any influence on patients' quality of life. There will not be observed any increase in serious clinical events and cost effectiveness will be improved.

Enrollment: 180 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Surgery for colon cancer (including rectosigmoid) with histological grade Duke stages A, B or C.
• Completion of postsurgical chemotherapy (Dukes stage C patients).
• Informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with rectal cancer defined as cancer within 15 cm from anus.
• A poor health status or operative complications making it natural to perform follow up by specialists.
• Additional cancer diagnoses.
• Disseminated cancer.
• Poor mental status.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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180 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Postoperative follow-up of ca coli patients at the surgical outpatient dpt

Treatment:

Other: ca coli follow-up by GP

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Postoperative follow-up of ca coli patients by GP's

Treatment:

Other: ca coli follow-up by GP