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CompletedNCT02482259

Assessment of Frailty in Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Cancers

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
28 (actual)
Sponsor
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

This study is looking at the feasibility of performing frailty assessments on patients with advanced hepatocellular cancer.

Detailed description

This study is primarily looking to see if it is feasible to assess frailty in patients with advanced hepatocellular cancer. It is also evaluating whether there may be any correlation between these assessments and toxicity of treatment and outcome. The assessments include: Frailty score, nutritional assessment, comorbidity score and quality of life. In addition sarcopenia will be assessed measuring muscle mass from imaging performed as part of routine clinical care. The assessments will be performed at baseline on entry into the study, at week 9 and week 18. There is the option for patients to also donate a blood samples for research purposes.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2013-12-01
Primary completion
2016-07-19
Completion
2016-07-19
First posted
2015-06-26
Last updated
2017-09-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02482259. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.