Telephone Paramedical Support Prior to the Radiotherapy Simulation Scanner for Patients with Prostate Cancer (RTEPROST)

Groupe Hospitalier de Bretagne Sud

Status: Completed

Conditions: Radiotherapy; Prostate Cancer

Treatments: Other: Phone call

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05910229

56LORC_2021_RTEPROST

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the impact of a phone call before the simulation CT scan in management of care of patients with prostate cancer.

Full description

After being informed about the study, all patients who have given written informed consent and who met eligibility requirement will be randomized in a simple blind manner ( investigator) in a 1:1 ration.

The main question it aims to answer is : Does a phone call before the simulation CT scan has an effectiveness on patients compliance of the recommendations and therefore on obtaining quality images.

There is no additional risk of patients involvement.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult
• Patient coming for prostate cancer treatment with or without lymph node irradiation
• Minimum of 48 hours between the onco radiotherapist and the CT scan
• Signed a written informed consent form
• Affiliated to the social security system

Exclusion criteria

• Patient not understanding French
• Patient not reachable by phone
• Individual of full age deprived of liberty or placed under a legal protection measure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Patient with standard care

No Intervention group

Description:

Consultation with the onco radiotherapeutic and submission of the recommendations to follow before the simulation CT Scan before the radiotherapy

Patient with personalized support

Experimental group

Description:

Consultation with the onco radiotherapeutic and submission of the recommendations to follow before the simulation CT Scan before the radiotherapy and a phone call by a radiotherapy technician

Treatment:

Other: Phone call