Can dietitian-led intensive telehealth support to maximise nutritional intake through dietary strategies, symptom management and the option for 'top-up' small bowel tube feeding improve quality of life in patients with pancreatic cancer?
- Conditions
- Pancreatic cancerCancer - Pancreatic
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12624000084583
- Lead Sponsor
- Monash University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 82
1. At least 18 years of age at time of screening
2. Ability to provide informed consent and willing to comply with study procedures (i.e. completion of study outcome questionnaires, participation in intervention if randomised to intervention group)
3. New diagnosis of borderline resectable, locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer commencing chemotherapy
4. Life expectancy of at least 6 months from the time of screening as judged by the patient's health care team
5. ECOG performance status score of less than or equal to 2.
1. Patients with neuroendocrine pancreatic cancers
2. Patients who have previously had a pancreatic cancer surgical resection
3. Patients who have received 2 or more cycles of chemotherapy for PC
4. Patients with serious medical or psychiatric conditions that might compromise protocol-based management as judged by the patient's treating healthcare team
5. Patients receiving ‘end of life’ care
6. Patients who declined or are deemed unsuitable for systemic chemotherapy
7. Patients with insufficient cognition to provide consent as judged by the patient's treating healthcare team
8. Patients with insufficient knowledge of the English language who do not have a family member that can assist with English translation to facilitate completion of outcome data collection, or interviews with the study dietitian
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method