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Cancer Risk Reduction Through Combined Treatment for Tobacco and Alcohol Use

NCT00799669 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 370

Last updated 2018-11-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: A counseling program that motivates patients to stop smoking and drinking may reduce the risk of oral cancer. It is not yet known whether motivational stop smoking counseling or motivational stop-smoking and stop drinking counseling is more effective in helping patients stop smoking and drinking.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well treatment to stop smoking and drinking works in preventing oral cancer in smokers in Puerto Rico.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

smoking cessation intervention

Standard quit-smoking counseling to help decrease their risk of cancer.

OTHER

counseling intervention

Counseling focusing on decreasing risk of getting cancer by decreasing smoking and alcohol use.

OTHER

preventive intervention

OTHER

questionnaire administration

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David Wetter, PhD, MS, BA · M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-12-05
Primary Completion
2020-02-29
Completion
2020-02-29

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