NCT03840213

Nutrition and Chemotherapy

Nutrition and Chemotherapy, Representation and Practice in a Cancer Care Centre (JEUNETCHIMIO)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Institut de Cancérologie de la Loire · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients treated for cancer nowadays have many means of information and tend to become more and more involved in their health. The interest of a therapeutic fast with detoxifying or even curative properties, with a specific indication for cancer patients treated by chemotherapy, is nowadays relayed by the media. To date, there are no studies conducted on the scope of this information in cancer patients or on the attitudes of oncologists towards this practice and possible positioning requests from patients. We hypothesize that the choice of this practice and its modalities are rarely discussed with oncologists, although it may have deleterious repercussions on the patient's health. We propose a research based on the principles of sociological intervention. Its objectives are a first review of the issue and the establishment of a joint working group, including patients, carers and researchers, which will propose solutions to improve the patient/carer dialogue on this issue.

Detailed description

Patients treated for cancer nowadays have many means of information and tend to become more and more involved in their health. The interest of a therapeutic fast with detoxifying or even curative properties, with a specific indication for cancer patients treated by chemotherapy, is nowadays relayed by the media. To date, there are no studies conducted on the scope of this information in cancer patients or on the attitudes of oncologists towards this practice and possible positioning requests from patients. We hypothesize that the choice of this practice and its modalities are rarely discussed with oncologists, although it may have deleterious repercussions on the patient's health. We propose a research based on the principles of sociological intervention. Its objectives are a first review of the issue and the establishment of a joint working group, including patients, carers and researchers, which will propose solutions to improve the patient/carer dialogue on this issue.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Filling a questionnaire and interviewDescription	The questionnaire focuses on the dietary practices of patients treated with chemotherapy. It consists of 35 questions, completing an average of 20 minutes. Interviews will be conducted with patients who have changed their diet since the beginning of their treatment in order to further develop the results of the quantitative survey.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-20
• Primary completion: 2019-12-31
• Completion: 2020-09-30
• First posted: 2019-02-15
• Last updated: 2019-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France