Colonic Neoplasm
Conditions
Brief summary
All patients presenting at participating hospitals during the recruitment period with a newly diagnosed colon cancer, regardless of stage and planned treatment, will be eligible for inclusion. They will answer a questionnaire on health related quality of life, physical symptoms, functional impairments and socioeconomic status at diagnosis and after 12, 36 months. Clinical data including recurrence, survival, surgical treatment, oncologic result (pathology report) and adjuvant treatment will be collected from the Swedish ColoRectal Cancer Registry (SCRCR)
Detailed description
QoLiCOL is an explorative, prospective, longitudinal, non-interventional, international, multicenter study of health-related quality of life, physical symptoms, functional impairments and socioeconomic burden in colon cancer patients. All patients presenting at participating hospitals during the recruitment period with a newly diagnosed rectal cancer, regardless of stage and planned treatment, will be eligible for inclusion. Patients will be followed for 3 years. They will be asked to answer questionnaires at three different time points during follow-up: at diagnosis and after 12 and 36 months. Clinical data, including recurrence, surgical treatment, oncologic result (pathology report) and adjuvant treatment will be collected from the national quality registry for rectal cancer in Denmark and Sweden. As these registries differ in some areas between the countries, additional data will be collected through short CRF:s.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALThere is no intervention, only observation
Sponsors
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Colon cancer newly diagnosed. * Planned treatment presented
Exclusion criteria
* No Colon cancer diagnosis, * below 18 years of age, * no informed consent or withdrawn informed consent.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| QoL in colon cancer patients | 3 years | The primary end-point is to describe QoL, symptoms and functional impairments in an unselected population of colon cancer patients |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Compare differences in QoL between patients with different tumour levels | 3 years |
| Detect differences in QoL in patients over time after colon cancer treatment | 3 years |
| Evaluate the effect of complications after colon cancer surgery on the patients socioeconomic situation | 3 years |
| Evaluate the effect of coping strategies on QoL after initiated treatment | 3 years |
| Describe patient expectations at diagnosis of colon cancer | 3 years |
| Generate basic descriptive data of the patient population, such as demography, socioeconomic data, disease stage at diagnosis, type of treatment, recurrence and survival | 3 years |
| Analyse how clinical factors like oncologic result of operation, morbidity, recurrence and survival influence QoL | 3 years |
| Identify areas of improvement in treatment and patient care | 3 years |
| Enable initiation interventional studies when appropriate | 3 years |
| Analyse health economy aspects of QoL and morbidity in the patient population | 3 years |
| Identify differences in QoL between patients in different groups regarding gender, age and education level | 3 years |
Countries
Sweden
Outcome results
None listed