Quality of Life in Patients With Bladder Cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Bladder Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Quality Of Life questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00745355

08-076

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn about the quality of life of people living with bladder cancer. We are interested in learning about how the treatments for bladder cancer affect people. We plan to use the findings from this study to help doctors provide better care and information to patients with bladder cancer.

Enrollment: 550 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients (male and female) who are diagnosed with bladder cancer
• Patients must be scheduled for radical cystectomy and urinary diversion are and/or being evaluated for neo-adjuvant chemotherapy prior to a planned cystectomy.
• Participants must be able to speak English.
• Participants must be able to provide informed consent.
• Participants must be 18 years of age or older to enroll.
• Participant may be eligible for and may receive neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy.
• Participant may have had intravesicle chemotherapy or immunotherapy (BCG, Interferon).

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects may be excluded from the study based on the following criteria:
• Follow-up care not obtained at MSKCC.
• Metastatic disease at diagnosis.

Trial design

550 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

new patients with bladder cancer and/or are scheduled for radical cystectomy and urinary diversion

Treatment:

Behavioral: Quality Of Life questionnaires