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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN86567908
ISRCTN86567908Completed未知

A randomised trial of a patient-centred strategy to facilitate transition of breast cancer survivors' routine Follow-UP from specialist to primary care

Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance/National Cancer Institute of Canada0 sites400 target enrollmentStarted: March 5, 2007Last updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
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Status
Completed
Sponsor
Enrollment
400

Study Overview

Brief Summary

Study Design

Study Type
Interventional

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
Female

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1. Women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer
  • 2. Stage I, II, or IIIa having completed primary treatment
  • 3. There is no evidence of recurrence; and
  • 4. Patient's surgeon agrees to transfer follow-up care to the Family Practitioner (FP)

Exclusion Criteria

  • 1. Primary treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy) not completed at least three months previously, except for continued use of tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor
  • 2. On herceptin or a potential candidate for herceptin (patients will become eligible following completion of herceptin therapy if ready for transition to primary care for routine follow-up)
  • 3. Under investigation for possible recurrence (patients will become eligible if recurrence is ruled out)
  • 4. Does not have a community-based FP to provide care (we will monitor the frequency with which patients are excluded because of this factor)
  • 5. The patients' FP already has a patient enrolled in the trial (to avoid contamination)
  • 6. Unable to comply with study protocol including completion of questionnaires
  • 7. Previously enrolled in a study requiring ongoing follow-up by a cancer specialist; or
  • 8. Actively followed by a cancer specialist for another primary cancer

Investigators

Sponsor
Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance/National Cancer Institute of Canada

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