Feasibility Study of a Prospective and Pragmatic Cohort

NCT02864797 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 116

Last updated 2017-10-13

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Summary

Gynecologic cancers (cancers of cervix, endometrium, ovary, vagina, and vulva) represent an important part of the female cancer in France with more than 15 000 new cases in 2012. As considerable progress have been made in diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, an important part of the gynecologic cancers are diagnosed at an early stage and globally, the after treatment overall survival rate is estimated to more than 80% at five years. Thus, it is of evident interest to study health related Quality of Life (QoL) among these patients who will continue to live after their cancer and to consider QoL as a primary end-point, beyond overall survival.

The GYNEQOL (health related Quality Of Life of women with GYNEcologic cancer) group is a working group initiated in Besançon and whose goal is to investigate QoL of gynecologic cancers' patients. It gathers several entities from the hospital of Besançon, namely the Methodology and Quality of Life in Oncology Unit, the Gynecologic Unit and the Oncology Unit. The GYNEQOL study is a project of a prospective cohort study, in a pragmatic clinical practice, with the main objective of longitudinally collecting and analyzing QoL data of these women.

The pilot phase, GYNEQOL-Pilot, restricted to the hospital of Besançon, has started in September 2015 with the goal of assessing the feasibility of the cohort. The feature of this study is that patients answer to QoL questionnaires using tablets computer and the Computer-based Health Evaluation System software (CHES). Indeed, use of electronic solutions to collect patient reported outcomes is drastically increasing those last years. It has been underlined that routinely collecting symptoms could increase both QoL and survival among cancer patients. It enables to use these data in real-time in routine practice by presenting QoL scores to physicians in simple graphical histograms for both transversal and longitudinal measurements and it ensures a reliable data collection.

Conditions

  • Gynecologic Cancers

Interventions

OTHER

Health related quality of life collected via CHES

Health related quality of life (QoL) is collected at each follow-up visit using tablets computer and CHES software. Thus, QoL's results are directly presented to clinicians via the CHES, in order to be considered as part of the supportive care strategy at the end of the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rajeev RAMANAH, MD PhD · CHU Besançon

  • Elsa KALBACHER, MD · CHU Besançon

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-29
Primary Completion
2018-08-22
Completion
2018-08-22

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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