NCT02078700

Feasibility of an Early Palliative Care Intervention for Metastatic Cancer Patients. A Phase 2 Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Azienda USL Reggio Emilia - IRCCS · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this phase 2 study is to evaluate the feasibility of an early palliative care intervention for metastatic cancer patients. Feasibility will be assessed in terms of percentage of patients that accept the proposal of the early palliative care intervention and that effectively start to be followed in the palliative care out-patient clinic. The study will be performed in a consecutive series of newly diagnosed patients affected by lung cancer (NSCLC or SCLC, stage IIIb, IV), mesothelioma (stage II, IV), pancreas (stage IV), stomach (stage IIIb-IV).

Conditions

• Lung Cancer
• Mesothelioma
• Pancreas Cancer
• Gastric Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	The early palliative care programme	The intervention consists of an early integration of a palliative care programme with the standard care performed by the oncologists-pneumologists that are following the cancer patients. The intervention will be delivered by the specialised Palliative Care Unit (PCU) of the hospital. Each patient meets the professionals of the PCU by 30 days by cancer diagnosis and at least monthly thereafter in the outpatint settings.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2014-03-05
• Last updated: 2025-06-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy