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Lung CancerNCT02233842

Cognitive Testing of Tobacco Use Measurement Items for Administration With Cancer Patients and Survivors

An observational study of Lung Cancer and Prostate Cancer, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Background: People who have cancer have more medical problems if they smoke. Some studies show that smoking even makes cancer treatment less effective. Researchers want to teach people about how tobacco use affects people after a cancer diagnosis. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 21 to 110 years
Conditions the study is for
Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Bladder Cancer
What is being tested?
Participant interview
How many people
30 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Sep 2014to Aug 2015
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 21 to 110 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Adults aged 21 or older who have cancer or are cancer survivors. The cancer can be at any site and any stage.

Who may be able to join

  • Patients with any prior confirmed cancer diagnosis being treated or followed at the Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, Maryland, will be eligible.
  • 3.1.1 Cancer patients with any disease site, stage, and extent of prior therapy will be eligible.
  • 3.1.2 Patients age 21 years old and over will be eligible. The items are intended for use with an adult population, so we need to test with representatives of that population.
  • 3.1.3 Additional eligibility criteria:
  • Individuals must be able to understand and willing to answer items about their own tobacco use.
  • Individuals must be able to read and speak English. For purposes of this study, we will limit participation to adults who can self-consent and self-report in English (vs. only being able to respond with the aid of a translator). The materials have been developed in English; this is intended to be cognitive testing of an English language questionnaire. (If a Spanish translation of the items will be developed in the future, a separate cognitive testing effort will be needed to ensure cultural equivalence of the items.)
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  • 3.1.4 Participants must be able to understand and be willing to sign a written informed consent
  • document. All participants will be asked to provide explicit consent.
  • 3.1.5 Participants are eligible whether they have never used tobacco products of any type, used any type of tobacco previously, or are current tobacco users of any type. (Participant recruitment will be designed to enroll a variety of patients with respect to tobacco use.)
  • Both men and women of all races and ethnic groups are eligible for participation in testing of the items. In fact, to the extent possible, we will try to include diversity of demographic characteristics (age, race, gender, education level).

Who cannot join

  • None. (Patients may have already begun protocol treatment.)

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20892

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About this study

Background:

  • People who have cancer have more medical problems if they smoke. Some studies show that smoking even makes cancer treatment less effective. Researchers want to teach people about how tobacco use affects people after a cancer diagnosis. They want to come up with questions for people who have cancer and who have survived cancer. The questions will be about using cigarettes and other tobacco products and about second-hand smoke.
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The questions will be used to understand how using tobacco affects people with cancer before, during, and after treatment. This will help doctors plan how to treat people with cancer and create programs to help people quit smoking in the future.

Objective:

  • To evaluate and refine questions that assess tobacco use.

Eligibility:

  • Adults age 21 or older who have cancer or are cancer survivors. The cancer can be at any site and any stage.

Design:

  • This study will take about 1 hour.
  • Participants will meet one-on-one with an interviewer. They will fill out a questionnaire and talk about the questions. Participants will explain how easy or hard it was to answer the questions and how they decided on their answers.
  • All participants will be asked the same or very similar questions. Specific questions will be based on the participants own experiences with tobacco products.
  • There will be no follow-up activities.
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Background:

Studies comparing cancer patients who smoke cigarettes at the time of diagnosis to former or never smokers have demonstrated increased difficulty with surgical wound healing and more treatment morbidity; reduced radiation and chemotherapy efficacy; reduced time to recurrence, progression, and second primary cancers; and increased mortality. Some studies have found that smoking interacts with cancer therapy efficacy.

Cigarette smoking is prevalent among patients with lung and head and neck cancers, with rates as high as 40% to 60% as of the time of diagnosis. The rate of smoking among cancer survivors has been estimated as 21% for lung cancer survivors and 39% for survivors of other cancers.(11)

Only 22% of NCI-funded phase III trials conducted by Cooperative Groups record patients cigarette smoking status among patients at the time of enrollment, and 4% record cigarette smoking status during follow-up.

We need to examine the impact of tobacco use on a wider range of therapeutic regimens and settings, with more detailed longitudinal tobacco use assessment. Research in this area is impeded by inadequate assessment of tobacco use after cancer diagnosis and a lack of valid, harmonized measures that are tailored to the trajectory of cancer diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.(15) The NCI-AACR Cancer Patient Tobacco Use Assessment Task Force formed in 2013 to develop recommendations for assessing tobacco use by cancer patients. The long- range goal of the Task Force is to advance the state of knowledge about the effect of tobacco use after a cancer diagnosis, to inform cancer treatment decision-making and to guide patients and providers regarding the timing and clinical significance of tobacco cessation.

Objectives:

To evaluate and refine proposed questionnaire items that assess tobacco use.

Eligibility:

Cancer patients with any disease site, stage, and extent of prior therapy and age greater than or equal to 21 years.

Design:

This study will evaluate and refine proposed questionnaire items that assess tobacco use in the cancer patient and survivor population. This study is purely qualitative. No research hypotheses will be tested in this study. There will be no therapy, administration of agent(s), or imaging administered as part of this study. Participants will only be asked to answer questions and then discuss their answers to the questions.

Patients who consent will participate in a session that will last up to one hour. They will complete a questionnaire about tobacco use and answer debriefing questions so that the interviewer can assess question comprehension, ease of answering, and accuracy of response.

Being tested
Participant interview
Keywords
Qualitative Data, Questionnaire
Medical subject headings
Lung Neoplasms, Prostatic Neoplasms, Urinary Bladder Neoplasms, Thymus Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Participant interviewBehavioural

    People with cancer and who have survived cancer will have a 1 hour interview about using cigarettes and other tobacco products.

Study groups in NCT02233842
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Tobacco Use in Cancer Pts & SurvivorsCognitive testing (e.g. participant interview) of tobacco use in patients (pts) who have cancer and who have survived cancer.
Receives: Behavioral: Participant interview

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of Participants to Achieve Saturation in an English-language Paper Questionnaire

    Saturation is defined as satisfactory measurement of performance without need of further review.

    Measured: Last subject interviewed, an average of 5 months

  2. Number of Smokers at the Time of the Interview

    Current, former, and cigar smokers at the time the interview (e.g. Cancer Patient Tobacco Use Questionnaire (C-TUQ)) was initiated.

    Measured: Day 1 of interview

  3. Number of Current and Former Smokers Who Smoked Cigarettes at the Time of Their Cancer Diagnosis

    Current and former smokers who were smoking at the time of their cancer diagnosis.

    Measured: Day 1 of interview

  4. Time From Cancer Diagnosis to the Date of the Interview

    Patients diagnosed with cancer who participated in the Cancer Patient Tobacco Use Questionnaire (C-TUQ).

    Measured: up to 24 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted9 Sep 2014 (estimated)
  2. Study startSep 2014
  3. Primary completionAug 2015
  4. Study completionAug 2015

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrolment
30 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02233842
Sponsor's protocol ID
140189
Other IDs
14-C-0189
Status last verified
Aug 2016
First submitted
6 Sep 2014
Last updated
12 Sep 2016
Data monitoring committee
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Land SR, Warren GW, Crafts JL, Hatsukami DK, Ostroff JS, Willis GB, Chollette VY, Mitchell SA, Folz JN, Gulley JL, Szabo E, Brandon TH, Duffy SA, Toll BA. Cognitive testing of tobacco use items for administration to patients with cancer and cancer survivors in clinical research. Cancer. 2016 Jun 1;122(11):1728-34. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29964. Epub 2016 Mar 28.

    PubMed 27019325
  • Land SR, Toll BA, Moinpour CM, Mitchell SA, Ostroff JS, Hatsukami DK, Duffy SA, Gritz ER, Rigotti NA, Brandon TH, Prindiville SA, Sarna LP, Schnoll RA, Herbst RS, Cinciripini PM, Leischow SJ, Dresler CM, Fiore MC, Warren GW. Research Priorities, Measures, and Recommendations for Assessment of Tobacco Use in Clinical Cancer Research. Clin Cancer Res. 2016 Apr 15;22(8):1907-13. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-0104. Epub 2016 Feb 17.

    PubMed 26888828

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Lung Cancer and Prostate Cancer, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 10 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 12 Sep 2016. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 27 Jul 2016). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of Participants to Achieve Saturation in an English-language Paper Questionnaire (time frame: Last subject interviewed, an average of 5 months). The study lists 4 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02233842, which also lists 2 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 12 Sep 2016.

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