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Stepped Palliative Care Versus Early Integrated Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

NCT03337399 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 507

Last updated 2025-05-15

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Summary

This research study is evaluating ways to provide palliative care to patients who have recently been diagnosed with lung cancer

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Stepped PC

Palliative Care is involvement of a team of clinicians that specialize in lessening (or "palliating") many of these distressing physical and emotional symptoms and in helping patients and their family cope with a serious illness improves patients' and their loved ones' experience with their cancer

OTHER

Early Integrated PC

Palliative Care is involvement of a team of clinicians that specialize in lessening (or "palliating") many of these distressing physical and emotional symptoms and in helping patients and their family cope with a serious illness improves patients' and their loved ones' experience with their cancer

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jennifer Temel, MD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-01
Primary Completion
2023-07-01
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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