International Travel Patterns and Risk Behaviour of Breast Cancer, Lymphoma Patients and Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Lymphoma

Treatments: Behavioral: questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01111201

10-045

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study also aims to raise awareness among both patients and health-care providers about the importance of pre-travel health consultation and preventive interventions prior to international travel.

Through appropriate health counseling, cancer patients will have less risk of having travel -related health complications and thus have a better quality of life and overall improved sense of wellbeing.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) recipients
• Age >18 years
• Status post bone marrow transplant within last five years Breast Cancer patients: Criteria 1 and Criteria 2 and/or 3
• Female age >18 years and current or past history of breast cancer
• Received systemic chemotherapy in the last five years
• Metastatic breast cancer disease (stage IV) Lymphoma: Criteria 1 and Criteria 2 and/or 3
• Age >18 years and current or past history of lymphoma
• Received systemic chemotherapy within 5 years
• Had active disease at any time within the last 5 years

Exclusion criteria

• Patients age< 18 years
• Breast cancer and lymphoma patients in clinical remission in the past 5 years
• Patients unable to fill the questionnaire due to language barriers

Trial design

26 participants in 1 patient group

questionnaires

Description:

There will be four versions of the questionnaire, each slightly modified to be more specific toward the treatment paradigms in the respective target patient population (Breast Cancer/ Lymphoma/Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant/ Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant). All questionnaire versions will consist of seven sections.

Treatment:

Behavioral: questionnaires