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Psychosocial Outcomes and Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM)

Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Breast Cancer
Registration Number
NCT02263014
Lead Sponsor
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Brief Summary

The goal of this research study is to learn more about how different treatment decisions may influence the quality of life in women with breast cancer. Researchers want to use what is learned from this study to help future patients with breast cancer to be more informed when making treatment decisions.

Detailed Description

With your verbal permission, you may have been asked to complete a questionnaire about your surgical treatment preferences for breast cancer as part of initial screening for this study. This takes about 5 minutes to complete.

If you agree to participate in this study, during the same visit you will complete a questionnaire about your background, such as your education level, marital status, and family history of cancer. This should take about 3 minutes to complete.

You will also be asked to complete a questionnaire about your surgery decisions and your feelings about those decisions at the following times: around the time you enroll in study before your surgery, and again about 1, 6, and 12 months after the surgery is completed. This questionnaire should take about 30-40 minutes to complete each time. You may complete this questionnaire at the clinic or you may complete it at home. If you chose to complete the questionnaire at home, you will be given a postage-paid envelope to mail it back to the study staff.

Length of Study:

After you complete all of the questionnaires, your participation in this study will be over.

This is an investigational study.

A total of up to 345 participants will be enrolled in this study. Up to 245 will take part at MD Anderson and up to 100 will take part at Kelsey-Seybold.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
345
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Newly diagnosed ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or Stage I-III sporadic unilateral invasive breast cancer
  2. Age 18 or older
  3. Able to speak, read, and write English.
  4. Spouse/Partner: Married or living with patient for a year or more
  5. Spouse/Partner: Age 18 or older
  6. Spouse/Partner: Able to speak, read, and write English
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Patients with previous breast cancer
  2. Prior history of prophylactic mastectomy
  3. Known to have a germline gene mutation that predisposes them to an increased risk of breast cancer (e.g., BRCA1, BRCA2), and/or if they are considered at high risk for contralateral breast cancer on the basis of a strong family history of cancer

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Psychosocial Outcomes of CPM Versus no CPM: Satisfaction With DecisionOne to 12 months post surgery, up to 18 months. Survey administered at 1, 6, 12 months following surgery.

The Satisfaction with Decision Scale (SWD) scale measures women's satisfaction with their surgery decision using the SWD six-item survey with a five-point scale where 1 is "strongly disagree" and 5 is "strongly agree" and the sum is the total score (complete range 6 to 30). The total satisfaction with decision score was averaged for surveys completed at each time point. Higher mean scores indicate greater satisfaction with the treatment decision.

Psychosocial Outcomes of CPM Versus no CPM: Cancer Distress ScoreBaseline to 12 months post surgery, up to 18 months. Survey administered at 1, 6, 12 months following surgery.

Cancer-specific distress was measured with the Impact of Events Scale (IES) to assess 2 common categories of responses to stressful events: intrusion and avoidance. The IES scale consists of 15 items. For the intrusion category (7 items), participants are asked to rate the items on a 4 point scale: 0 (not at all), 1 (rarely), 3 (sometimes), and 5 (often) and the sum is the total score (complete range is 0 to 35). For the avoidance category (8 items), participants are asked to rate the items on a 4 point scale: 0 (not at all), 1 (rarely), 3 (sometimes), and 5 (often) and the sum is the total score (complete range 0 to 40). The total cancer-specific distress score is the sum of the total intrusion score and the total avoidance score (complete range is 0 to 75). The total distress score was averaged for surveys completed at each time point. Higher mean scores indicate greater cancer-specific distress.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Kelsey-Seybold

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Houston, Texas, United States

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Houston, Texas, United States

Kelsey-Seybold
🇺🇸Houston, Texas, United States

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