NCT01647425

Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in Patients With Head and Neck or Lung Cancer

Prevalence and Risk Factors for Persistent Tobacco or Alcohol Use Over the First Year of a First Lung or Head and Neck Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 385 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Oscar Lambret · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is an multicenter study for preventive and therapeutic strategies for patients with head and neck cancer

Detailed description

Continuing the chronic intoxication by either tobacco or alcohol after the initial diagnosis of a first lung or head and neck cancer significantly improves the risk of experiencing a second cancer, and largely affects the long term survival. Addiction intervention programs should be personalized according to the patient's profile, with the aim to develop more sustained intervention and monitoring in patients identified at higher risk of not spontaneously stopping harmful substance use. As of today, the trajectories of smoking and drinking habits and the risk factors for persisting smoking or drinking habits have been insufficiently explored among patients with a first lung or head and neck cancer. The ALTAK study aims to depict the rate of tobacco smokers 12 months after the initial diagnosis of a first lung or head and neck cancer. The secondary objectives of the study are: * to depict the rate of alcohol users 12 months after the initial diagnosis of a H\&N cancer * to depict the rate of tobacco smokers at cancer diagnosis * to depict the rate of alcohol users at cancer diagnosis * to determine the social, motivational, psychiatric, tobacco-related, alcohol-related, and cannabis-related features associated with stopping tobacco in the year following the diagnosis of a first TARC. * to determine the social, psychiatric, tobacco-related, alcohol-related, and cannabis-related features associated with stopping alcohol drinking in the year following the diagnosis of a first H\&N cancer

Conditions

• Head and Neck Cancer
• Lung Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	physician assessment	* Socio-economic conditions and general features: educational level, professional status... * Assessment of current and past use of tobacco: current smoking status reported by the patient; in lifelong non-smokers: previous history of passive smoking reported by the patient; breath carbon monoxide level; in past smokers: age of first cigarette, total reported duration of active smoking, breath carbon monoxide level... * in current smokers: age of first tobacco use, total reported duration of active smoking; Fagerström Nicotine Dependence Test... * Assessment of the current and past uses of alcohol: previous-year assessment using the CAGE questionnaire and the AUDIT Test; average weekly alcohol consumption over the last 12 months... * Assessment of current use of cannabis using the Cannabis Abuse Screening Test * Psychiatric assessment using the MINI 5.0

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2014-09-01
• First posted: 2012-07-23
• Last updated: 2026-03-16

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: France