Patient-Defined Treatment Success and Preferences in Stage IV Lung Cancer Patients

University of Nebraska

Status: Unknown

Conditions: FACT-TOI Scores; Particularly Rural/Urban Residence; Comorbid Conditions; Age; Gender

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02190864

318-13-EP

Details and patient eligibility

About

Our long-term goal is to integrate non-small cell lung cancer patient treatment preferences into clinical treatment planning.

Full description

The following specific aims are proposed:

Aim 1: Determine whether individual patients' preferences, characteristics, and treatment experiences affect the definition of treatment success.

Aim 2: Determine how to best predict real-life patients' treatment choices based on patients' preferences of adverse events.

Aim 3: Determine whether physicians are likely to change their oncologic clinical practice after receiving a detailed communication of their patients' preferences of adverse events.

Enrollment: 210 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Willing and able to provide consent

• Greater than or equal to 19 years of age

• Diagnosed with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

• Able to understand spoken English

• Eligible to undergo chemotherapy for stage IV NSCLC, to include, but not limited to, those who:

  1. have not yet started chemo
  2. are currently undergoing chemo for stage IV NSCLC
  3. have completed first line stage IV NSCLC chemo or progressed to maintenance for stage IV NSCLC within the last 30 days
  4. elect to have chemo elsewhere -- not at one of the study sites
  5. decline chemo

Exclusion criteria

• Age <19 years
• Not willing and/or able to provide consent
• Not able to understand spoken English
• Not eligible to undergo chemotherapy for stage IV NSCLC