Partnering with General practitioners to Optimise Survivorship for PatiEnts with Lymphoma: A Phase II randomised controlled trial.
- Conditions
- ymphomaLymphomaCancer - Lymphoma (non Hodgkin's lymphoma) - High grade lymphomaCancer - Lymphoma (non Hodgkin's lymphoma) - Low grade lymphomaCancer - Hodgkin's
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12620000594921
- Lead Sponsor
- Professor Raymond Chan
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 51
Due to the varying follow-up requirements for patients with lymphoma, we will recruit 2 groups of patients who map to 2 distinct follow-up pathways:
-Group 1. Acute post-treatment follow-up: Patients with a pathologically confirmed diagnosis of aggressive or indolent lymphoma in the acute post-treatment phase (i.e., within three months of completion of chemotherapy); and
-Group 2. Observation follow-up (i.e., surveillance clinics): Patients with a pathologically confirmed diagnosis of indolent lymphoma followed up in the surveillance clinic and at least 2 years post-treatment or treatment naïve.
All participants must be:
-Men or women
->/=18 years of age
-have an ECOG performance status <2
-be an ambulatory patient at the time of recruitment
-be able to nominate a GP to be involved in their follow-up
-have access to a telephone
-the presence of severe mental, cognitive or physical conditions that would limit the patient’s ability to participate as per treating clinician.
-Lymphoma not in remission
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Health-related quality of life as measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Lymphoma (FACT-Lym)[Measured at baseline, 6 months and 12 months.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method