Non-small Cell Lung Cancer and Quality of Life (SILKE)

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00818402

SILKE-ETMK:47/180/2008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The principal objective is to study clinical observations, symptoms and quality of life of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients undergoing specific non-operative treatment for cancer, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with verified NSCLC
• after the NSCLC diagnosis has been confirmed prior to first chemotherapy or radiotherapy
• Finnish speaking patients
• aged 18 years or more
• Written informed consent has to be signed

Exclusion criteria

• Patients not consenting to participate in the study
• patients not able to communicate sufficiently
• cancer type is other than non-small-cell lung cancer

Trial design

130 participants in 1 patient group

Non-small cell lung cancer patients