Access to Care and Prognosis in Elderly With Cancer (INCAPAC Study)

Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Registration Number: NCT03694171

Lead Sponsor: Institut Bergonié

Brief Summary: The growing incidence of cancer associated to an aging population represents an epidemiologic reality that requires questioning access to care and prognosis in elderly with cancer, for which disparities have been highlighted. However, generally speaking, studies are limited in that they overlook geriatric-specific factors. The aim of this work was to study sociodemographic, socioeconomic and clinical determinants of access to care (cancer stage, cancer treatment) and prognosis (functional decline, survival) in elderly cancer patients.

Detailed Description: The French department of Gironde (1.5 million inhabitants) is covered by cancer registries. In addition, three cohorts were initiated in Gironde on cerebral and functional aging that enrolled subjects aged 65 years and over: the PAQUID study (1988), the 3-City study (1999), and the AMI study (2007). In these cohorts, a large amount of individual data on the participants has been collected longitudinally at different follow-up visits, conducted every two or three years.

Using cancer registries, older subjects with cancer were identified in the cohort studies. Subjects were included if they presented the following: i) aged 65 years and over from one of the three cohorts, ii) alive on January 1st 2005 (common start date for tumor recording) and resident in Gironde, and iii) with a validated cancer diagnosis recorded in one of the cancer registries from January 1st 2005 to December 31st 2014. All tumors for which data is annually sent by cancer registries to the International Agency for Research of Cancer were included: invasive malignant tumors and benign tumors of the central nervous system. As the incidence of skin tumors in older cancer patients is high, they were also included. For patients with multiple tumors, only one was considered: either the first one diagnosed if there were several tumors with a minimum of a 6 months interval between their diagnosis, or the one with the worse prognosis if there were several tumors diagnosed within 6 months.

In order to not consider information concerning patients' characteristics that was too old, subjects with a delay between the last completed cohort follow-up visit before the cancer diagnosis and the diagnosis of cancer equal or superior to 6 years were excluded.

Variables were extracted from cohorts and registries at different times: cohort inclusion, pre-diagnosis visit, cancer diagnosis or registries follow-up.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 450

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of Patients Being Receiving Treatment Administration After Diagnosis	At diagnosis	Treatment administration was defined as any cancer treatment (versus no treatment) including curative, palliative and symptomatic treatments. This information was registered by registries and qualified as unknown when no information was available about treatment receipt.
The Probability of Being Dead at One Year	one year after diagnosis	The probability of being dead with or without receiving cancer treatment at least once (death)

Secondary Outcome Measures