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Living Without Answers - ILLUMINATE CUP

NCT07712965 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2026-07-20

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Summary

This project aims to improve care, service delivery, and patient experience for people with Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP) by addressing a critical gap in understanding the lived experiences of patients and carers. By exploring how individuals navigate diagnostic uncertainty, fragmented care pathways, and interactions with healthcare professionals, the study will identify key points of distress, unmet need, and communication breakdown.

The findings will support the development of more person-centred and compassionate care, including clearer communication, improved service coordination, and better recognition of the psychological and emotional impact of CUP. By highlighting the challenges of uncertainty and lack of diagnostic clarity, the project will inform more tailored support for both patients and carers.

A unique strength of this study is the inclusion of a professional illustrator to visually capture focus group discussions, supporting the narrative inquiry approach and aiding the interpretation of shared meanings within the data. These visual summaries will enhance engagement, inclusivity, and accessibility, ensuring that complex experiences are communicated clearly to patients, carers, clinicians, and wider audiences.

Through strong PPIE involvement and accessible dissemination, patient and carer voices will directly inform service improvements and future care design.

Overall, this project will help ensure CUP care is more coordinated, communicative, inclusive, and responsive to patient and carer needs, ultimately improving experience, wellbeing, and trust in healthcare services.

Conditions

  • Cancer
  • CUP
  • Cancer Unknown Primary

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-09-01
Primary Completion
2027-09-01
Completion
2028-09-01

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