Is the Distance of Patients From Rouen University Hospital Influencing the Time Between Colectomy and First Chemotherapy Cure for Colon Cancer? (DICHIMIO)

University Hospital, Rouen

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chemotherapy; Cancer Colon; Colectomy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03722121

2016/264/HP

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project has for objective to demonstrate that the increase of the distance "Patient home - center of treatment" may be associated with significant, other noticeable, noted events. This distance may also be available in the Rouen University Hospital. The study of the association in this distance and the delay in initiating chemotherapy after surgery in patients treated at the CHU correspond to a pilot study prior to the completion of the analysis at the regional scale.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who had colectomy for colon cancer and at least one chemotherapy treatment at CHU Rouen, between 2009 and the first half of 2015.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who died in hospital before receiving a chemotherapy treatment
• Patients with a CIM code of metastasis during the stay of the colectomy or the first chemotherapy treatment
• Patients who received a chemotherapy treatment before colectomy
• Patients who have undergone several colectomies.