NCT01903395

Risk-adapted Screening in First-degree Relatives of Patients With Colorectal Cancer

Nurse-led Colon Cancer Risk Counseling for First-degree Relatives to Enhance Use of Colonoscopy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 313 (actual)
• Sponsor: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

BACKGROUND: First-degree relatives of patients with colorectal cancer are at increased risk for colorectal cancer as well. Nevertheless, participation in the German national screening program stagnates at 2-3 percent per year even in this high-risk population. AIM: The study is aimed to increase the portion of the first-degree relatives on 50% which take up a preventive colonoscopy. METHODS: Cluster-randomized controlled multi-center trial. Study sites (clusters) are mainly certified cancer centers and office-based gastroenterologists from all over Germany. Index-patients with colorectal cancer of different stages are asked to hand over the study material to their relatives, consisting of an invitation to a nurse-led counseling on preventive colonoscopy and an one-to-one appointment with a clinical expert of one of the study sites next.

Conditions

• Colorectal Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nurse-led counselling	Nurse-led telephone counselling to double the utilization of preventive colonoscopy

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2013-07-19
• Last updated: 2016-10-25

Locations

33 sites across 1 country: Germany