Interest of a Geriatric Intervention Plan Associated to a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment on Autonomy, Quality of Life and Survival of Patients Aged 70 Years Old and More Surgically Treated for a Resectable Cancer (Thoracic, Digestive or Urologic). Randomized Multicentric Study (epigac)

Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cancer

Treatments

Other: comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)

Other: Geriatric intervention plan (GIP)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02000011

2013-A01038-37

2013-33 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The curative treatment of thoracic (lung and oesophagus), digestive (gastric, pancreatic, hepatic, colorectal), and urologic (renal, bladder, prostatic) cancers needs a surgical resection. For patients aged of 70 years old and more, this surgery is associated to an increased morbid-mortality especially because of more frequent co-morbidities. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) allows distinguishing patients for whom a resection surgery can be complicated by high morbid-mortality or a loss of autonomy. It has been proved that for old patient population without cancer, CGA associated with a geriatric intervention plan (GIP) allows autonomy preservation, decrease of institution admission, and survival improvement. The reference study showed that a CGA associated to a GIP improves survival of old patients who had a cancer surgery. However this study included patients from 60 years old and the GIP consisted in 3 home visits and 5 phone calls during the 4 weeks following hospital discharge.

We propose to perform a prospective and randomized study to evaluate the impact of a CGA with GIP in 70 years old and more patients with a thoracic, digestive or urologic cancer resection, respectively 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after discharge. CGA and GIP will focus on 8 distinct fields: autonomy, co-morbidities, co-medication, mobility, nutritional status, depression, cognitive function and social status. The impact of such a strategy on autonomy and survival has never been studied.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

70+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Male or female aged 70 years old or more
Patient with a resectable cancer( thoracic, digestive ore urologic);
Patients who have to undergo a surgery with general anaesthesia;
Patients treated in one of the partner programme unit ;
Patient able to fill in an auto-questionnaire alone or with some help;
Patient who have signed an informed consent and who commits himself or herself to respect the protocol instructions.

Exclusion criteria

Patient younger than 70 years old;
Patient who is not registered to the social ;
Patient for whom surgery is performed under local anaesthesia;
Patient unable to fill-in alone an autoquestionnaire (because of an inability to read French language or severe cognitive troubles);
Patient treated with neuroleptic or lithium ;
Patient with already known cognitive impairment (Alzheimer, dementia, neurologic sequel);
Patient under legal protection;
Patient who has not signed informed consent.