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Telephone Follow-up After Treatment for Endometrial Cancer

NCT01610375 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 149

Last updated 2019-08-29

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Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility, safety and accuracy of a telephone follow-up for women previously treatment for endometrial cancer.

To achieve this aim, potentially eligible women attending the Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer (QCGC) outpatient clinic for review following previous treatment for endometrial cancer will be recruited by this study. The study aims to recruit all new patients as well as all patients who return to QCGC for their follow-up and who had treatment within the previous 2 years.

The proposed project will involve generation of an evidence-based checklist of signs and symptoms of disease recurrence from a thorough literature review. The generated symptom checklist will be pilot tested and the refined symptom checklist will be used to follow study participants over a period of 12 months.

During the follow-up period, the basic standard of follow-up after primary treatment for endometrial cancer at the QCGC, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH)will not be altered; however, the study participants will be interview via telephone 2 to 5 days prior to their scheduled review dates.

The main outcome measure will be the estimated recurrence rate as derived from the telephone assessment and this will be compared to the clinically detected recurrences as recorded in patients' medical files.

It is hypothesized, that the telephone follow-up will identify 90% of all recurrences correctly that are later confirmed during the clinical follow-up.

In addition to the main outcome, we will also assess patients' satisfaction with each of the follow-up programs, whether or not lifestyle behaviours were queried and support offered to improve wellbeing.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Telephone Follow-up

This is a non-randomised observational study to assess the value of a symptom checklist to detect recurrence in women with endometrial cancer. Women will be telephoned using an evidence-based symptom checklist in parallel to the standard clinic-based follow-up. The researcher will call the participants 2 to 5 days prior to their scheduled clinic review dates to enquire about the presence of symptoms which may be indicative of disease recurrence. In addition, the researcher will also enquire about the participants' wellbeing and provide standard lifestyle resource on physical activity, diet and other lifestyle behaviours and supportive care when needed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Andreas Obermair, MD FRANZCOG CGO · Queensland Center for Gynecological Cancer

  • Monika Janda, PhD · Queensland University of Technology

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2018-12-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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