The Impact of SPC on Advanced Breast Cancer Patients

Silesian University of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Cancer, Breast; Quality of Life; Palliative Care

Treatments: Procedure: Specialist Palliative Care

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03612934

SPC1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this prospective, observational study is the evaluation of the effectiveness of a 14-day Specialist Palliative Care therapy in participants with advanced breast cancer carried out in a stationary palliative care unit in Poland. The length of the entire study will be 36 months.

Enrollment: 144 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 33 to 91 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

the patient's conscious consent for examination and the ability to fill in the form by the patient herself.

Exclusion criteria

• patients with cognitive disturbances disabling credible answers in the questionnaire, deceased patients or those discharged from the ward before 14 days of hospitalisation.

Trial design

144 participants in 2 patient groups

patients under the age of 65 years

Description:

patients under the age of 65 years

Treatment:

Procedure: Specialist Palliative Care

patients at the age of 65 years and over

Description:

patients at the age of 65 years and over

Treatment:

Procedure: Specialist Palliative Care