NCT06138067

Patient Navigation Program to Improve Clinical Trial Enrollment in Cancer Patients

A Pilot Study of Low Versus High Intensity Patient Navigation Program to Improve the Enrollment on Clinical Trials Among Cancer Patients

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the utility of patient navigation by comparing high intensity patient navigation to low intensity navigation approaches to improving cancer trial enrollment of patients treated in academic and community cancer centers. Patient navigation is a strategy for increasing patients access to cancer care by helping the participant overcome barriers in the participants communities and within the health care system by providing a bridge between the patient and the health care system. The primary objective of this study is to determine if a high intensity patient navigation program will improve patients enrollment on clinical trial in comparison to a low intensity patient navigation. Participants who agree to participate and are eligible will be randomly assigned to either the high intensity or low intensity approach.

Detailed description

This study is a pilot randomized two arm prospective study of a high versus low intensity patient navigation program with the primary endpoint of clinical trials enrollment rate between the 2 arms. The hypothesis of the study is that a high intensity patient navigation program will improve the enrollment rates on clinical trials. Candidates for this study will already have been identified by the patient navigator as being potentially eligible for a clinical trial. Randomization will be stratified by the type of site: community versus academic. There will be a single futility analysis after approximately 50% of the patients have been randomized and offered a clinical trial. Randomization and data capture will be via REDCap. The primary endpoint of the study is the enrollment rate on clinical trials. With a sample size of 90 and conservatively assuming a clinical trial enrollment among clinical trial eligible patients of 50%, simulations show the investigators would be able to detect a 25% minimum difference (alternative 75% enrollment) in enrollment rates between the two groups with 84% power using a Z test of proportions with a one-sided alpha level of 0.10.

Conditions

• Prostate Cancer
• Kidney Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	High intensity approach	PEM, cancer center support services material, and community resources and services available to cancer patients material. The PEM will be reviewed with the patient navigator before the participants appointment with the medical oncologist. If enrolled in a clinical trial, the patient navigator will call the participant biweekly, or more often if they are working to resolve any needs identified in the needs assessment) until the participant is successfully enrolled in the therapeutic clinical trial. The patient navigator will call the participant once weekly for 4 weeks, or less than 4 weeks in other cases including withdrawal from the clinical trial or this navigation study, disease progression, or death. The participant will receive a call 3 months after enrollment on the therapeutic clinical trial to complete the Exit Questionnaire
BEHAVIORAL	Low intensity approach	The participant will receive PEM, and community resources and services available to cancer patients material. The PEM will be reviewed with the patient navigator before the appointment with the medical oncologist. The patient navigator will call the participant 4 weeks after enrollment on the trial. The participant will receive a call 3 months after enrollment on the therapeutic clinical trial to complete the Exit Questionnaire

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-12-01
• Primary completion: 2026-06-01
• Completion: 2026-06-01
• First posted: 2023-11-18
• Last updated: 2025-12-18

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States