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| First Received Date ICMJE | November 1, 1999 | ||||
| Last Updated Date | July 20, 2009 | ||||
| Start Date ICMJE | February 1992 | ||||
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| Change History | Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00002485 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site | ||||
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| Descriptive Information | |||||
| Brief Title ICMJE | Development of Strategies to Increase Enrollment in Clinical Trials for Children With Cancer | ||||
| Official Title ICMJE | BARRIERS TO PATIENT ENROLLMENT ONTO FRONTLINE THERAPEUTIC CLINICAL TRIALS AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERVENTION STRATEGIES TO INCREASE THE PROPORTION OF ENROLLMENT | ||||
| Brief Summary | RATIONALE: Taking part in a clinical trial may help children with cancer receive more effective treatment. PURPOSE: Determine why patients who are eligible for protocols made available through the Pediatric Oncology Group do not enroll in them, and develop strategies to increase enrollment on these clinical trials. |
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| Detailed Description | OBJECTIVES: I. Identify prospectively physician and patient factors associated with reasons why patients who are eligible for Pediatric Oncology Group therapeutic protocols are not enrolled onto such studies. II. Provide information that may be used to develop intervention strategies to decrease barriers to patient enrollment, thus increasing enrollment in therapeutic protocols. OUTLINE: This is a case-control, multicenter study. Case patients are stratified. Stratum 1 comprises patients for whom there is an appropriate Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) frontline therapeutic protocol that has not yet been submitted to, disapproved by, or approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Stratum 2 comprises patients for whom there is an appropriate POG frontline therapeutic protocol that has been approved by the IRB. Physicians complete an IRB submission form for their patients on stratum 1. Patients/parents on stratum 2 who refused enrollment and their primary physicians complete questionnaires that address reasons for nonenrollment. Control patients/parents who consented to enrollment complete questionnaires that address reasons for enrollment. Demographic information, including the size of the treating institution and the annual number of patients enrolled onto its protocols, is collected. Additional demographic information regarding the patient and his or her family is collected. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 595 case patients (12 with soft tissue sarcoma, 34 with osteosarcoma, 19 with brain tumors, 32 with Hodgkin's disease, 60 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 278 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, 65 with acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia, 56 with neuroblastoma, 14 with hepatoblastoma, and 25 with germ cell tumors) will be accrued for this study within 7 years. Corresponding control patients will be accrued for this study. |
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| Study Type ICMJE | Interventional | ||||
| Study Design ICMJE | Other | ||||
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| Intervention ICMJE | Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care | ||||
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* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID) in Medline. |
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| Recruitment Status ICMJE | Completed | ||||
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| Eligibility Criteria ICMJE | DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Case or control patient clinically eligible for a Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) frontline therapeutic protocol, whether or not the protocol was submitted to or approved by the physician's Institutional Review Board Case patients must not have enrolled on the POG frontline protocol due to decision by the physician or patient/parent Control patients must have been enrolled on the POG frontline protocol Ineligible if offered treatment on an in-house therapeutic protocol (institutional review board-approved) rather than the POG protocol PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 21 and under Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Not specified PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: Not specified Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: Not specified Surgery: Not specified |
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| Gender | Both | ||||
| Ages | up to 21 Years | ||||
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers | No | ||||
| Contacts ICMJE | Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects | ||||
| Location Countries ICMJE | United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland | ||||
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| NCT ID ICMJE | NCT00002485 | ||||
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| Study ID Numbers ICMJE | CDR0000077305, POG-9284/9285, NCI-P92-0003 | ||||
| Study Sponsor ICMJE | Pediatric Oncology Group | ||||
| Collaborators ICMJE | National Cancer Institute (NCI) | ||||
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| Information Provided By | National Cancer Institute (NCI) | ||||
| Verification Date | October 2006 | ||||
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ICMJE Data element required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Health Organization ICTRP |
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