Post-treatment Care of Breast Cancer Survivors



Status:Completed
Conditions:Breast Cancer, Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:Oncology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:4/21/2016
Start Date:July 2007
End Date:May 2013

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The overall goal of this proposal is to improve the post-treatment care of breast cancer
survivors and to understand the barriers to optimal post-treatment care in Latina and
Non-Hispanic women.

The proposed investigation is a randomized prospective evaluation of a Survivorship
Intervention in improving the quality of care, treatment satisfaction and understanding of
care in Latina and Caucasian breast cancer survivors treated in an urban academic medical
center. Patients will be recruited within 6 weeks of completing their last definitive breast
cancer therapy (radiation or chemotherapy). Patients will complete self administered
baseline and follow-up questionnaires. Following baseline evaluation patients will be
randomized to receiving either written information for follow-up care of cancer survivors
published by the National Cancer Institute (Facing Forward), or the Survivorship
Intervention. Patients will not be aware that they are participating in a randomized
intervention. After verbally agreeing to participate they will be randomized to group A or B
and will receive the corresponding consent. Patients will be re-assessed 3 and 6 months
after enrollment.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Participants will be screened for the following inclusion criteria:

- Age >18 years

- History of stage 0, I, II, or IIIa breast cancer and no evidence of recurrent disease

- Within 6 weeks of completion of breast cancer therapy (Surgery, Radiation or
Chemotherapy)

- Caucasian and/or Hispanic (English or Spanish-speaking)

- Willing to undergo a 1 hr cancer survivorship evaluation

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with the following active conditions or behaviors will be excluded from
participation:

- Evidence of recurrent or metastatic breast cancer

- Patients who have received surgery only with no adjuvant therapy

- Uncontrolled or significant psychiatric illness/social situations that would preclude
completion of questionnaire or follow-up evaluation.
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