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GlioblastomaPROMESSENCT03975959

Memory Perception Assessment in Central/Non-central Nervous System Cancers

A study testing QMRP questionnaire in people with Glioblastoma and Glioma, run by Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle at 6 sites in France.

Completed

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

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Trial summary

Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to implement intended actions in the future. It allows maintaining and retrieving future plans, goals, and activities (i.e., remember to remember). PM is associated with most everyday memory problems . Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 80 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Glioblastoma, Glioma, Breast Cancer
What is being tested?
QMRP questionnaire
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
426 participants
Where
6 sitesFrance
Study dates
10 May 2019to 31 Oct 2024
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

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 18 to 80 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • All the participants must fulfill all the following criteria to be eligible for study entry:
  • Be aged of 18 to 80 years old
  • Have a ECOG Performance Status ≤ 2 or a Karnofsky index ≥ 50 %
  • Have a satisfactory level of French
  • Have signed the informed consent
  • Also, for the DLGG group, the patients must:
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  • Have a histologically-proven diagnosis of DLGG (i.e., WHO grade II glioma)
  • Receive or have received a first oncological treatment after surgery (chemotherapy, radiation therapy…)
  • Also, for the GB group, the patients must:
  • Have a histologically-proven diagnosis of GB (i.e., WHO grade IV glioma).
  • Also, for the breast cancer group, the patients must:
  • Have a histologically-proven diagnosis of breast cancer diagnosed < 2 years.

Who cannot join

  • Participants presenting with any of the following exclusion criteria will not be included in the study:
  • Patients with brain metastases
  • Patients under tutorship or curatorship or protective measures
  • Patients suffering from sensorial or motor deficits avoiding the tests administration
  • Patients with a reported history of psychiatric disease (e.g., mental retardation, psychotic disorders, learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and bipolar disorder)
  • Have reported a substance dependence within the past six months (e.g., cocaine or methamphetamine dependence)
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  • Pregnant women
  • Legal incapacity or physical, psychological social or geographical status interfering with the patient's ability to sign the informed consent or to terminate the study
  • Also, for the DLGG group, the patients must not:
  • Have an anaplastic glioma (i.e., WHO grade III glioma)
  • Have a DLGG with radiological or histological signs of anaplastic transformation
  • Have a history of HIV
  • Have a history of other cancer
  • Also, for the GB group, the patients must not:
  • Patients treated with ≥2 lines of systemic cancer treatment (e.g., patient after the first GB recurrence)
  • Have a history of HIV
  • Have a history of other cancer
  • Also, for the breast cancer group, the patients must not:
  • Have a metastatic disease
  • Have a neoadjuvant therapy
  • Have a documented neurological, or substance use disorders.
  • Have a history of HIV
  • Have a history of other cancer
  • Have reported a history of neurological diagnoses (e.g., seizure disorders, closed head injuries with loss of consciousness greater than 15 min).
  • Also for the control group, the participants must not:
  • Have a documented neurological, or substance use disorders
  • Have a history of cancer
  • Have a history of HIV

Trial locations and contacts

6 sites in 1 country.

6 sites in 1 country

France6 sites
  • CHU D'amiens

    Amiens, Nord, 80080

  • Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées

    Clamart, 92190

  • Icm Val D'Aurelle

    Montpellier, Herault, 34298

  • Hopital saint Louis

    Paris, 75010

  • CHU Lyon

    Saint-Genis-Laval, 69230

  • UFR de Psychologie Université de Lille

    Villeneuve-d'Ascq, NORD, 59653

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About this study

Official title: Prospective and Retrospective Memory Perception Assessment in Central/Non-central Nervous System Cancers

Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to implement intended actions in the future. It allows maintaining and retrieving future plans, goals, and activities (i.e., remember to remember). PM is associated with most everyday memory problems . PM is crucial to correctly respond to all the social, occupational and working demands of everyday life, to perform many deferred health-related actions and is involved in therapeutic adherence .

Indeed, PM errors are an important part of the aging memory complaints. The prevalence of self-reported PM failures is also significant among young adults, compared with self-reported retrospective memory (RM) failures .Yet, PM errors are major sources of frustration and embarrassment .

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In oncology, recently investigated the self-reported memory complaints in a 80 case-healthy-control study breast patients . Subjective memory complaints were assessed using the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire . Results from the Paquet et al. study show that all participants (i.e., both patients and matched-controls) reported more PM than RM failures in daily-life (p<.001). Breast cancer patients reported more RM and PM failures than controls. However, this group effect was no longer statistically significant when controlling for depression and fatigue.

These findings are consistent with the view that memory complaints are closely associated with depression and cancer-related fatigue, and more generally with psychopathological variables .As underlined by Paquet et al. subjective memory complaints should be investigated because they refer to some aspects of the cancer experience that could potentially be linked to quality of life. Thus, it is important to explore psychopathological basis such as depression, anxiety and fatigue while investigating self-reported memory failures in cancer patients.

Despites the importance of PM, there have been, to our knowledge, only few studies evaluating PM complaints or PM functioning in patients diagnosed with an intracerebral tumor (such as Diffuse Low-Grade Glioma- DLGG- or glioblastome- GB) or extra-cerebral tumor (such as breast cancer - BC). Therefore, the investigators thought it would be useful, as a first step, to conduct a study to explore and to manage the PM and RM subjective complaints in cancer patients compared to another chronic disease, such as HIV. In fine, these data will help to identify a new target for psychological management focused on either psychopathological or neuropsychological rehabilitation

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Primary objective :

This study will aim at determining the nature of subjective memory complaints (i.e., prospective or retrospective memory) in cancer patients with intra- cerebral tumors (Glioblastomas and Diffuse Low Grade Gliomas) and extra cerebral tumors (Breast cancer) compared with controls.

The protocol administration will take about 20 minutes. It will be conducted by an experienced clinical neuropsychologist or clinical oncologist in each center during standard care. According to the results on the questionnaires and test, patients will be addressed and managed by a neuropsychologist, a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist or a speech therapist.

Being tested
QMRP questionnaire
Keywords
PROMESSE, PROSPECTIVE MEMORY, RETROSPECTIVE MEMORY
Medical subject headings
Glioblastoma, Glioma, Breast Neoplasms

What participants receive

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

  • QMRP questionnaireOther

    Also called HADS questionnaire, MFI questionnaire, MOCA test, FAB test

    a single consultation for test and questionnaires for a duration of 20 minutes

Study groups in NCT03975959
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
GLIOBLASTOMAOtherOne visit with collection : demographical data clinical data QMRP questionnaire HADS questionnaire MFI questionnaire MoCA test FAB test
Receives: Other: QMRP questionnaire
gliomaOtherOne visit with collection : demographical data clinical data QMRP questionnaire HADS questionnaire MFI questionnaire MoCA test FAB test
Receives: Other: QMRP questionnaire
breast cancerOtherOne visit with collection : demographical data clinical data QMRP questionnaire HADS questionnaire MFI questionnaire MoCA test FAB test
Receives: Other: QMRP questionnaire
healthyOtherOne visit with collection : demographical data clinical data QMRP questionnaire HADS questionnaire MFI questionnaire MoCA test FAB test
Receives: Other: QMRP questionnaire

What is being measured

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

  1. the nature of subjective memory complaints

    scores from 8 to 40 of QMRP questionnaire

    Measured: 12 months

Secondary outcomes (6)
  1. the significant psychopathological correlates of the subjective PM and RM complaints

    Scores on the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale from 0-21

    Measured: 12 months

  2. the significant correlates between the subjective PM and RM complaints and the subjective fatigues

    Scores on the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20

    Measured: 12 months

  3. the significant correlates between the subjective PM and RM complaints

    Scores (from 0 to 30) on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    Measured: 12 months

  4. the effect of disease on the subjective PM and RM complaints

    comparison of clinical event between each group

    Measured: 12 months

  5. the effect of cancer on the subjective PM and RM complaints

    questionnaire : frontal assessment battery compared between each groups

    Measured: 12 months

  6. the significant correlates between the subjective PM and RM complaints

    questionnaire : frontal assessment battery score 0-18

    Measured: 12 months

Timeline

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

  1. First posted5 Jun 2019
  2. Study start10 May 2019
  3. Primary completion27 Jun 2024
  4. Study completion31 Oct 2024

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More details

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

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Factorial
Model description
The protocol administration will take about 20 minutes. It will be conducted by an experienced clinical neuropsychologist or clinical oncologist in each center during standard care. According to the results on the questionnaires and test, patients will be addressed and managed by a neuropsychologist, a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist or a speech therapist.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
426 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03975959
Sponsor's protocol ID
PROICM 2018-07 BPR
Acronym
PROMESSE
Status last verified
Jun 2025
First submitted
27 May 2019
Last updated
4 Jun 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: All data will be available after publication of the results in peer-reviewed revues, and in national and international meetings. It includes all de-identified participants' data, the study protocol, the statistical analysis plan and the clinical study report. The corresponding author will provide data and datasets generated and/or analyzed during the study upon reasonable request.

Publications

  • Bedard M, Verma S, Collins B, Song X, Paquet L. Prospective memory impairment in chemotherapy-exposed early breast cancer survivors: Preliminary evidence from a clinical test. J Psychosoc Oncol. 2016 Jul-Aug;34(4):291-304. doi: 10.1080/07347332.2016.1181133. Epub 2016 Apr 28.

    PubMed 27123566
  • Boone M, Roussel M, Chauffert B, Le Gars D, Godefroy O. Prevalence and profile of cognitive impairment in adult glioma: a sensitivity analysis. J Neurooncol. 2016 Aug;129(1):123-30. doi: 10.1007/s11060-016-2152-7. Epub 2016 May 30.

    PubMed 27241133
  • Brem S, Meyers CA, Palmer G, Booth-Jones M, Jain S, Ewend MG. Preservation of neurocognitive function and local control of 1 to 3 brain metastases treated with surgery and carmustine wafers. Cancer. 2013 Nov 1;119(21):3830-8. doi: 10.1002/cncr.28307. Epub 2013 Aug 23.

    PubMed 24037801
  • Cheng H, Yang Z, Dong B, Chen C, Zhang M, Huang Z, Chen Z, Wang K. Chemotherapy-induced prospective memory impairment in patients with breast cancer. Psychooncology. 2013 Oct;22(10):2391-5. doi: 10.1002/pon.3291. Epub 2013 May 15.

    PubMed 23674402
  • Crawford JR, Henry JD, Ward AL, Blake J. The Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ): latent structure, normative data and discrepancy analysis for proxy-ratings. Br J Clin Psychol. 2006 Mar;45(Pt 1):83-104. doi: 10.1348/014466505X28748.

    PubMed 16480568
  • de Frias CM, Dixon RA, Backman L. Use of memory compensation strategies is related to psychosocial and health indicators. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2003 Jan;58(1):P12-22. doi: 10.1093/geronb/58.1.p12.

    PubMed 12496297
  • Dieckmann P, Reddersen S, Wehner T, Rall M. Prospective memory failures as an unexplored threat to patient safety: results from a pilot study using patient simulators to investigate the missed execution of intentions. Ergonomics. 2006 Apr 15-May 15;49(5-6):526-43. doi: 10.1080/00140130600568782.

    PubMed 16717009
  • Dubois B, Slachevsky A, Litvan I, Pillon B. The FAB: a Frontal Assessment Battery at bedside. Neurology. 2000 Dec 12;55(11):1621-6. doi: 10.1212/wnl.55.11.1621.

    PubMed 11113214
  • Fleming J, Ownsworth T, Doig E, Hutton L, Griffin J, Kendall M, Shum DH. The efficacy of prospective memory rehabilitation plus metacognitive skills training for adults with traumatic brain injury: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2017 Jan 5;18(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s13063-016-1758-6.

    PubMed 28057075
  • Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR. "Mini-mental state". A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res. 1975 Nov;12(3):189-98. doi: 10.1016/0022-3956(75)90026-6. No abstract available.

    PubMed 1202204
  • Gentile S, Delaroziere JC, Favre F, Sambuc R, San Marco JL. Validation of the French 'multidimensional fatigue inventory' (MFI 20). Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2003 Mar;12(1):58-64. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2354.2003.00295.x.

    PubMed 12641557
  • Gonneaud J, Kalpouzos G, Bon L, Viader F, Eustache F, Desgranges B. Distinct and shared cognitive functions mediate event- and time-based prospective memory impairment in normal ageing. Memory. 2011 May;19(4):360-77. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2011.570765.

    PubMed 21678154
  • Guerdoux E, Dressaire D, Martin S, Adam S, Brouillet D. Habit and recollection in healthy aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology. 2012 Jul;26(4):517-33. doi: 10.1037/a0028718. Epub 2012 May 28.

    PubMed 22642394
  • Guerdoux E, Martin S, Dressaire D, Adam S, Brouillet D. [Memory controlled processes between the young and old: the birth of cognitive complaint?]. Can J Aging. 2009 Mar;28(1):5-20. doi: 10.1017/S0714980809090023. French.

    PubMed 19860963
  • Herrmann C. International experiences with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale--a review of validation data and clinical results. J Psychosom Res. 1997 Jan;42(1):17-41. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3999(96)00216-4.

    PubMed 9055211

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing QMRP questionnaire in people with Glioblastoma and Glioma, run by Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle at 6 sites in France.

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 12 inclusion and 28 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 4 Jun 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 6 sites in France. 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?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

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?

the nature of subjective memory complaints (time frame: 12 months). 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 NCT03975959, which also lists 34 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 4 Jun 2026.

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