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Geriatric Evaluation and Management With Survivorship Health Education for Older Survivors of Cancer, GEM-S Trial

Eligible age

18+ yrs

Accepts

All genders

Locations

13 states

Healthy volunteers

Yes

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About this study

This phase III trial compares the effect of geriatric evaluation and management with survivorship health education (GEM-S) to usual care on patient-reported physical function in older survivors of cancer. Survivorship care for older adults of cancer usually consists of getting advice from their doctor. This advice may include how to do their daily activities, so they are less tired or how to manage multiple diseases, or long-term side effects from treatment. GEM-S may help improve the physical ability to perform activities of daily living, mental well-being, and memory in older survivors of cancer after chemotherapy. This study may help doctors learn if including GEM-S in their practices improves physical, mental and memory functions in their patients. The study may also help to understand how such care affects cancer patients and their caregivers' quality of life.

Sponsor: University of Rochester

You may qualify if…

✓ PRACTICE CRITERIA: Participating practice clusters will be required to identify one (or more) oncologist and/or advanced practice practitioner (APPs; i.e., nurse practitioners, or physician assistants) as part of study eligibility. If another clinician is interested in participating, please contact University of Rochester Cancer Center (URCC) National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research Base (RB) for approval
✓ Oncologists/APPs/other clinicians must be licensed to practice
✓ Oncologists/APPs/other clinicians must not have a plan to leave or retire from the NCORP practice within one year of enrolling into the study
✓ PRACTICE CRITERIA: Support/buy-in from oncology physicians and/or APPs and/or other clinicians who are willing to participate in training and study procedures and enroll cancer survivors
✓ ENTRY CRITERIA FOR ONCOLOGY PHYSICIANS/APPS/OTHER CLINICIANS: Oncology physicians/APPs/other clinicians must work at a participating site with no plans to leave that practice or retire within one year of enrollment into the study. We do not require that any or all oncology physicians and/or APPs at a practice setting agree to participate. Only one clinician is required for the practice cluster to be eligible. If another clinician (other than oncology physician or APP) is interested in participating, please contact URCC NCORP RB for approval
✓ CANCER SURVIVORS: 65 years or older
✓ CANCER SURVIVORS: Have completed or will have completed curative-intent treatment (e.g., surgery, chemotherapy, chemotherapy with radiation) for any solid tumor or lymphoma malignancy in last 6 months. If the survivor is receiving curative-intent chemotherapy, run-in study procedures can occur during the last 6 weeks of chemotherapy.
✓ Cancer survivors who will receive or are receiving other treatments (e.g., hormonal treatment, monoclonal antibodies, immunotherapy, radiation) are eligible

You may not qualify if…

✕ CANCER SURVIVORS: Have a condition that precludes their ability to participate in informed consent or procedures (e.g., dementia)
✕ CAREGIVERS: Caregivers unable to understand the informed consent form or study procedures due to cognitive, health, or sensory impairment will be excluded
✕ Capacity to conduct informed consent procedures and study procedures will be determined by the coordinators in collaboration with the cancer survivors' oncologists. These procedures are similar to that of URCC 13070, which enrolled caregivers of older patients with advanced cancer