Extended Cancer Education for Longer-Term Survivors in Primary Care for Patients With Stage I-II Breast or Prostate Cancer or Stage I-III Colorectal Cancer



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Cancer, Cancer, Cancer, Cancer, Cancer, Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:Oncology
Healthy:No
Age Range:30 - Any
Updated:8/11/2018
Start Date:September 3, 2013
End Date:July 31, 2022

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Extended Cancer Education for Longer-Term Survivors (EXCELS) In Primary Care

This study tests four different methods of educating patients about follow-up care (NCI
facing forward, brochure, EXCELS website alone, EXCELS health coaching alone and EXCELS
website & health coaching combination) after cancer treatment ends. While it is known that
patients need information to guide follow-up it remains unknown how to best provide this in
primary care.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Develop the EXCELS intervention to facilitate engaged self-management of cancer follow-up
for cancer survivors.

II. Evaluate the efficacy of EXCELS intervention in a small randomized controlled trial.

III. Assess/refine intervention usability and acceptability for primary care patients.

OUTLINE:

PHASE I: EXCELS intervention is developed and assessed.

PHASE II: Participants are randomized into 1 of 4 arms.

ARM I: Participants receive National Cancer Institute's Facing Forward brochure.

ARM II: Participants have untimed access to the EXCELS mobile web application.

ARM III: Participants also receive 4 calls of 15-20 minutes each over 3 months focusing on
assisting survivors with addressing challenges to receiving preventive service and health
care.

ARM IV: Participants have access to EXCELS website as in Arm II. Participants also receive 4
health coaching calls as in Arm III.

Patients are followed up at 6 months, 12 months and 18 months post randomization.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Have been diagnosed with localized breast or prostate (stages 1-2) or colorectal
cancer (stage 1-3)

- Have completed active treatment for their cancer diagnosis (excluding hormonal
therapy)

- Have access to a phone for contact with health coach

- Be able to communicate in English; and be competent to consent

- Usability Testing and the randomized control trial (RCT): have access to a computer, a
smartphone or an i-Pad/tablet equivalent with internet access

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients who are required because of their disease to see primarily oncologists for
follow-up will be excluded (i.e., those diagnosed with lymph node or distant
metastasis, those with a new primary cancer)
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111
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New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
Principal Investigator: Shawna V. Hudson
Phone: 848-932-0218
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