NCT02821793

Expectations and Priorities of Elderly Patients for a First Medical Treatment for Cancer

Expectations and Priorities of Elderly Patients for a First Medical Treatment for Cancer : PRIORITY Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 346 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institut Bergonié · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main objective of study is to describe the priorities of elderly patients (70 years and over) undergoing a first medical treatment for cancer, at initiation of treatment and after 3 months of treatment. The main criterion is a prioritization of 4 items per patient from a list of 8 expectations regarding the objectives of their treatment: treatment efficacy, life expectancy, autonomy, daily activities, social activities, heaviness of treatment, toxicity, economics.

Detailed description

For the primary endpoint assessment, this self-administered patient questionnaire will used an opinion scale (Not at all, A little, Moderately, Enough, Many) to explore the eight domains. Next to the completion of the expectations questionnaire, patients will have to order 4 of the different 8 items that they prioritized in regard of the first line treatment that has just been prescribed by their physician. Secondary endpoint will focus on those 8 proposed expectations of patients at different periods of time since treatment initiation. Patients' priorities will be compared to physician's priorities (using the same prioritization grid) before medical treatment and after 3 months of treatment and to younger patients' priorities (18-69 years). Associations between elderly patients' characteristics (social, medical…) and their priorities will be search.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer
• Kidney Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Sarcoma
• Ovarian Cancer
• Lymphoma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Consultation, evaluation questionnaire	Consultation, evaluation questionnaire
OTHER	Geriatric consultation, evaluation questionnaire	Geriatric consultation, evaluation questionnaire

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-06-30
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2016-07-04
• Last updated: 2025-07-01
• Results posted: 2025-07-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France