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Increasing the Dose of Survivorship Care Planning in Improving Care and Outcomes in Prostate Cancer Survivors Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy

Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Prostate Adenocarcinoma
Interventions
Other: Questionnaire Administration
Other: Survivorship Care Plan (SCP)
Other: Treatment Plan
Registration Number
NCT03860961
Lead Sponsor
NRG Oncology
Brief Summary

This trial studies how well increasing the dose of survivorship care planning improves care and outcomes in prostate cancer survivors receiving radiation therapy and androgen deprivation therapy. There is a need for coordinated care between the cancer care team with the primary care team. This is especially important for prostate cancer survivors who need routine cancer care follow-up with their radiation oncologist and also coordinated routine follow-up with their primary care provider (PCP). This is important because androgen deprivation therapy increases a patient's risk for developing diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and cardiovascular events. Increasing the dose of survivorship may improve care and outcomes of cancer survivors than standard practices.

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To determine if the experimental arm (increased doses of survivorship care planning \[SCP\]) has more patients who saw a primary care provider and had blood glucose and cholesterol checked in year 2 (13-24 months) after finishing radiation therapy (RT) as compared to the control arm.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if patients who receive increased doses of SCP have lower cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score at 2 years as compared to patients who receive a one-time SCP.

II. To determine if patients who receive increased doses of SCP have improved patient reported coordination and satisfaction with care with respect to their primary care provider (PCP) or cardiologist as compared to patients who receive a one-time SCP and whether health literacy modifies the effect of SCP use on patient-reported coordination of care and satisfaction with care with respect to their PCP or cardiologist.

III. To determine the number of patients eligible, but without a PCP/cardiologist.

IV. To describe the current practice related to SCP delivery and prostate cancer survivor monitoring in participating National Cancer Institute (NCI) Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) practices.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVE:

I. To determine if patients who receive increased doses of SCP have improved patient reported coordination and satisfaction with care with respect to their cancer specialist as compared to patients who receive a one-time SCP and whether health literacy modifies the effect of SCP use on patient-reported coordination of care and satisfaction with care with respect to their cancer specialist.

OUTLINE: Practices are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.

ARM A (STANDARD): Practices review a SCP with patients and send it to the PCP during the last week of RT.

ARM B (ENHANCED SCP): Practices review a treatment plan with patient and send it to the PCP at the beginning of RT. Practices also review a SCP as arm A.

After completion of study, patients are followed up periodically.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
Male
Target Recruitment
546
Inclusion Criteria
  • PRACTICE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

  • All institutions participating in a practice are NCORP components or sub-components

  • Have a mechanism for delivering SCPs to prostate cancer patients. Practices that currently provide SCPs are eligible but for this trial will need to use the study-provided SCP template.

  • See at least 10 patients meeting eligibility criteria per year.

  • Completion and submission of the NRG-CC007CD Letter of Intent (LOI) (posted on the Cancer Trials Support Unit [CTSU] website) by each practice to NRGCC007CD@nrgoncology.org).

  • Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval

  • Each principal investigator (PI) and research assistant (RA) at a NCORP practice must complete NRG-CC007CD SCP training. A training certificate will need to be completed and uploaded to the CTSU Regulatory Submission Portal. (See NRG-CC007CD Training Memo and Slides; located on the CTSU website). Note: staff and physicians cannot be part of multiple practices

  • For a practice that is participating on Wake Forest study, WF-1804CD is not able to participate in this trial in order to not impact the fidelity of either trial. As long as the clinicians (physicians, American Physician Partners [APPs]) are different for the patient populations of the two trials, a practice is eligible to participate in both trials

  • PATIENT ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA - PRIOR TO REGISTRATION (STEP 1)

  • The participant must be able to complete required questionnaires in English

  • The participant must have a diagnosis of prostate adenocarcinoma that will be treated with RT plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with curative intent. Both definitive RT (intact prostate) and postprostatectomy RT patients are eligible

    • The ADT must be planned for at least 4 months and must include luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist or LHRH antagonist
    • ADT may have started for no more than 120 days before registration
  • The participant must have a primary care provider and/or cardiologist or plan to obtain one

  • Comorbidities assessed at study entry using the Adult Comorbidity Evaluation (ACE)-27 instrument (located on the CTSU website)

  • The patient or a legally authorized representative must provide study-specific informed consent prior to study entry

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Standard Survivorship Care Plan (SCP)Questionnaire AdministrationPractices review a SCP with patients and send it to the PCP during the last week of RT.
Enhanced Survivorship Care Plan (SCP)Survivorship Care Plan (SCP)Practices review a treatment plan with patient and send it to the PCP at the beginning of RT. Practices also review a SCP with patients and send it to the PCP during the last week of RT.
Standard Survivorship Care Plan (SCP)Survivorship Care Plan (SCP)Practices review a SCP with patients and send it to the PCP during the last week of RT.
Enhanced Survivorship Care Plan (SCP)Treatment PlanPractices review a treatment plan with patient and send it to the PCP at the beginning of RT. Practices also review a SCP with patients and send it to the PCP during the last week of RT.
Enhanced Survivorship Care Plan (SCP)Questionnaire AdministrationPractices review a treatment plan with patient and send it to the PCP at the beginning of RT. Practices also review a SCP with patients and send it to the PCP during the last week of RT.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Proportion of patients who saw a primary care provider (PCP) or cardiologist and had fasting blood glucose and cholesterol checkedAt 24 months after completion of radiation therapy (RT)

Will be evaluated on the individual level using an adjusted chi-square test that computes clustering correction factors computed separately in each treatment (Donner 1989) and tested with a 2-sided type I error of 0.05. A generalized estimating equation (GEE) (Liang 1986), adjusting for practice as a random covariate as part of a 2 level hierarchy (patients nested within clusters) will be used to determine the effect of intervention, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) duration, person delivering the survivorship care plan (SCP), whether the patient saw a PCP or cardiologist, and possible confounders such as age, race, and number of baseline cardiovascular disease risk factors (none, hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and/or known coronary heart disease). A sensitivity analysis will be conducted assuming patients who have missing data at 24 months did not have their glucose and cholesterol checked or see their PCP or cardiologist.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Calculated cardiovascular (CVD) risk scoreAt baseline and 24 months

Will be calculated using the American Heart Association Risk Calculator. A linear mixed model (Laird 1982) with practice as a random covariate as part of a 2 level hierarchy (patients nested within clusters) will be used to compare the treatment arms using a significance level of 0.05.

Coordination of care with respect to the PCP or cardiologistAt baseline and up to 24 months after completion of RT

Will be measured using the components of Primary Care Index. Distribution will be provided for the entire study cohort only and not by arm. Statistical testing using a t-test (Wilcoxon test if the data is not normal) will only be performed if there is sufficient data on the control arm to allow for between treatment arm differences. A linear mixed effects model with practice as a random covariate as part of a 3 level hierarchy (surveys nested within patients nested within clusters) will be used to assess the effect of the intervention on the coordination of care for the PCP or cardiologist, with baseline score as a covariate, at 12 months and 24 months after completing RT (Liang 1986). Similar models will be used to determine the effect of various baseline covariates, including ADT duration, number of cardiovascular risk factors, person delivering the SCP, Brief Health Literacy Screen (BHLS) score, and race ethnicity on the coordination of care scores.

Satisfaction with care with respect to the PCP or cardiologistAt baseline and up to 24 months after completion of RT

Will be measured using the Patient Satisfaction with Care questionnaire. Distribution will be provided for the entire study cohort only and not by arm. Statistical testing using a t-test (Wilcoxon test if the data is not normal) will only be performed if there is sufficient data on the control arm to allow for between treatment arm differences. A linear mixed effects model with practice as a random covariate as part of a 3 level hierarchy (surveys nested within patients nested within clusters) will be used to assess the effect of the intervention on the satisfaction with cancer care for the PCP or cardiologist, with baseline score as a covariate, at 12 months and 24 months after completing RT (Liang 1986). Similar models will be used to determine the effect of various baseline covariates, including ADT duration, number of cardiovascular risk factors, person delivering the SCP, BHLS score, and race ethnicity on the satisfaction with cancer care scores.

Eligible screened patients with a PCP or cardiologistAt baseline

Each National Cancer Institute NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) practice will screen (step 0) and keep a log of all patients who are eligible, regardless of whether the patient has an existing PCP and/or cardiologist. The percentage of the enrolled patients out of all eligible patients (excluding the PCP requirement) will be provided along with the percentages broken down by practice.

Current practice related to SCP delivery and prostate cancer survivor monitoringPrior to randomization

Descriptive statistics, such as frequencies for the number of sites that currently use a treatment plan and/or SCP, and routinely perform testing and means for the percent of patients and/or their PCPs who receive a treatment plan and/or SCP, will be performed. Comparisons by arm will be made using a chi square test or t-test. If significant differences exist, at a two-sided significance level of 0.05, the respective covariates may be added to the models for the primary and secondary endpoints.

High health literacy levelsAt baseline

Will be associated with improved patient-reported coordination of care and satisfaction with care. Will be assessed using BHLS.

Trial Locations

Locations (79)

SSM Health Good Samaritan

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Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States

Kingman Regional Medical Center

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Kingman, Arizona, United States

Kaiser Permanente Dublin

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Dublin, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Oakland-Broadway

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Oakland, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente-Rancho Cordova Cancer Center

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Rancho Cordova, California, United States

Rohnert Park Cancer Center

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Rohnert Park, California, United States

The Permanente Medical Group-Roseville Radiation Oncology

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Roseville, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Santa Clara

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Santa Clara, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Cancer Treatment Center

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South San Francisco, California, United States

Helen F Graham Cancer Center

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Newark, Delaware, United States

Christiana Care Health System-Christiana Hospital

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Newark, Delaware, United States

Beebe Health Campus

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Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, United States

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

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Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Augusta University Medical Center

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Augusta, Georgia, United States

Saint Luke's Cancer Institute - Boise

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Boise, Idaho, United States

Saint Luke's Cancer Institute - Fruitland

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Fruitland, Idaho, United States

Saint Luke's Cancer Institute - Meridian

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Meridian, Idaho, United States

Saint Luke's Cancer Institute - Nampa

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Nampa, Idaho, United States

Saint Luke's Cancer Institute - Twin Falls

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Twin Falls, Idaho, United States

John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County

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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Carle at The Riverfront

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Danville, Illinois, United States

Cancer Care Specialists of Illinois - Decatur

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Decatur, Illinois, United States

Decatur Memorial Hospital

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Decatur, Illinois, United States

Carle Physician Group-Effingham

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Effingham, Illinois, United States

Crossroads Cancer Center

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Effingham, Illinois, United States

Carle Physician Group-Mattoon/Charleston

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Mattoon, Illinois, United States

Carle Cancer Center

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Urbana, Illinois, United States

Saint Luke's Hospital

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

University of Kansas Clinical Research Center

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Fairway, Kansas, United States

University of Kansas Cancer Center-West

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Kansas City, Kansas, United States

University of Kansas Cancer Center

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Kansas City, Kansas, United States

University of Kansas Cancer Center-Overland Park

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Overland Park, Kansas, United States

University of Kansas Health System Saint Francis Campus

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Topeka, Kansas, United States

University of Kansas Hospital-Westwood Cancer Center

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Westwood, Kansas, United States

MaineHealth Coastal Cancer Treatment Center

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Bath, Maine, United States

Maine Medical Center-Bramhall Campus

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Portland, Maine, United States

MaineHealth Cancer Care Center of York County

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Sanford, Maine, United States

Maine Medical Center- Scarborough Campus

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Scarborough, Maine, United States

Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals - Butterworth Hospital

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Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Minnesota Oncology Hematology PA-Maplewood

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Maplewood, Minnesota, United States

University of Kansas Cancer Center - North

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Kansas City, Missouri, United States

University of Kansas Cancer Center - Lee's Summit

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Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States

University of Kansas Cancer Center at North Kansas City Hospital

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North Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Delbert Day Cancer Institute at PCRMC

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Rolla, Missouri, United States

CoxHealth South Hospital

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Springfield, Missouri, United States

Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center

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Carson City, Nevada, United States

OptumCare Cancer Care at Seven Hills

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Henderson, Nevada, United States

OptumCare Cancer Care at Charleston

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

OptumCare Cancer Care at MountainView

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada - Town Center

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

OptumCare Cancer Care at Fort Apache

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada - Central Valley

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Hunterdon Medical Center

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Flemington, New Jersey, United States

Morristown Medical Center

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Morristown, New Jersey, United States

University of New Mexico Cancer Center

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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

CaroMont Regional Medical Center

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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States

FirstHealth of the Carolinas-Moore Regional Hospital

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Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States

Novant Cancer Institute Radiation Oncology - Supply

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Supply, North Carolina, United States

Novant Health Cancer Institute Radiation Oncology - Wilmington

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Wilmington, North Carolina, United States

Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center

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Wilmington, North Carolina, United States

Adena Regional Medical Center

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Chillicothe, Ohio, United States

Saint Rita's Medical Center

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Lima, Ohio, United States

Christiana Care Health System-Concord Health Center

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Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States

Geisinger Medical Center

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Danville, Pennsylvania, United States

AnMed Health Cancer Center

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Anderson, South Carolina, United States

Saint Francis Hospital

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Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Prisma Health Cancer Institute - Faris

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Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital

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Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Saint Francis Cancer Center

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Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Prisma Health Cancer Institute - Eastside

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Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Prisma Health Cancer Institute - Greer

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Greer, South Carolina, United States

Gibbs Cancer Center-Pelham

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Greer, South Carolina, United States

Prisma Health Cancer Institute - Seneca

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Seneca, South Carolina, United States

Spartanburg Medical Center

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Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

Ascension Saint Elizabeth Hospital

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Appleton, Wisconsin, United States

Ascension Southeast Wisconsin Hospital - Elmbrook Campus

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Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States

Ascension Mercy Hospital

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Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States

Aspirus Regional Cancer Center

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Wausau, Wisconsin, United States

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