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Nurse-Provided Care or Standard Care in Treating Patients With Pancreatic Cancer

NCT00902733 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 125

Last updated 2010-10-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Meeting with a nurse to assess symptoms and quality of life may be more effective than standard care in treating patients with pancreatic cancer.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying nurse-provided care to see how well it works compared with standard care in treating patients with pancreatic cancer.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

medical chart review

OTHER

questionnaire administration

PROCEDURE

fatigue assessment and management

PROCEDURE

psychosocial assessment and care

PROCEDURE

quality-of-life assessment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • City of Hope Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marcia Grant, RN, DNSc, FAAN · City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

Study Design

Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-07-31
Primary Completion
2010-02-28
Completion
2010-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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