Talking to Employers and Medical Staff About Breast Cancer Treatment and Your Job

Status:	Recruiting
Conditions:	Breast Cancer, Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:	Oncology
Healthy:	No
Age Range:	18 - 64
Updated:	2/1/2019
Start Date:	June 7, 2018
End Date:	June 2021
Contact:	Victoria Blinder, M.D., M.Sc.
Email:	blinderv@mskcc.org
Phone:	646-888-4808

Breast Cancer and the Workforce: Talking to Employers and Medical Staff About Work (TEAMWork)

The purpose of this study is learn more about how being treated for breast cancer affects
patients' employment. Researchers are testing an early version of a mobile app designed to
help breast cancer patients keep their jobs during and after treatment. The app provides
advice for patients to use when having conversations about breast cancer with their employers
and their doctors. The app is called TEAMWork (Talking to Employers And Medical staff about
Work). In this study, the investigators are asking breast cancer patients who are about to
receive treatment or who are currently receiving treatment to tell us what aspects of the app
work well, so that they can learn how to improve it.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Planning to undergo adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy for stage I-III breast
cancer*

- Age 18 to 64 (inclusive)

- Female

- Paid employment (full time or part time) at time of consent

- The ability to give informed consent English or Spanish

- Able to use and read a smartphone (iPhone or Android)

- Has a smartphone (iPhone or Android)

- Has low confidence in requesting workplace accommodations (based on a brief screening
survey included as Appendix C). Low confidence is defined by having a score of 7 or
lower on any of the five measures included in this appendix.

- Usability Test Interview participants must meet criteria above and may also
include patients who have undergone one or more cycles of treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

We found this trial at

sites

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

1275 York Ave
New York, New York 10021

(212) 639-2000