The NCI-DoD TriCare Feasibility Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 93
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Participation rates
研究概览
简要总结
Background:
- Researchers at the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Defense are trying to learn more about what causes cancer, heart disease, and other health problems. To do this, they gather data on risk factors and biological markers. They get these data from large groups of people in long-running studies. As these groups of people age, researchers must form new groups. TRICARE is a health insurance program for uniformed service members and their families. It is a major part of the Military Health System. Researchers hope to form a new study group from TRICARE members. This study will test if TRICARE members will take part in a research study.
Objectives:
- To test if TRICARE members will take part in a research study.
Eligibility:
- TRICARE members aged 35 74 with military primary care providers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. They must not have a prior diagnosis of cancer other than non-melanoma skin cancer.
Design:
- Participants will fill out a survey. It will ask about their risk factors for cancer and other chronic diseases. Their medical records will be reviewed. They will give a blood sample.
- If a larger study is formed, then participants data will be used in the larger study. They may be asked to give more samples.
详细描述
DCEG has a long history of developing and running major cohort studies, and these form the
backbone of the research portfolio in the Division. Existing cohorts, including but not limited to
AARP, PLCO and USRT, have been extremely productive and have generated a wealth of
information about potential cancer risk factors and biological markers. In the next decade, these cohorts will reach the end of their natural lifetime due to the length of time since the baseline questionnaire, the average age of the participants, and the depletion of biological samples. There is the need, therefore, to start planning for the next generation of cohorts that will be able to continue to address current and future hypotheses about the etiology of cancer. A working group within DCEG was formed to discuss potential settings, and a cohort study within the US military setting was selected as one of the promising possibilities. Attractive features conducive to conducting a cohort study using the TriCare health insurance system was the possibility of linkage to numerous electronic databases, including those that maintain addresses and enrollment status, pharmacy databases, medical records databases, and cancer registry and mortality databases. Tricare is a health care insurance program for uniformed service members (active, Guard/Reserve, retired) and their families.
Our overarching, long-term, objective is to build a new prospective multi-center adult cohort
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 35 Years 至 74 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Participation rates
时间窗: End of study recruitment
Participant rates
Data linkage
时间窗: Before study recruitment
Data linkage
次要结局
- Cross-sectional biomarker study(End of study recruitment)