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Infertility Survey Among Reproductive Age Women With Gynecological and Breast Cancer

Infertility Survey Among Reproductive Age Women With Gynecological and Breast Cancer

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04678414
Enrollment
1410
Registered
2020-12-22
Start date
2019-04-01
Completion date
2027-02-02
Last updated
2025-10-14

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Anatomic Stage I Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IA Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IB Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage II Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage III Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IIIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IIIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IIIC Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Endometrial Carcinoma, Female Reproductive System Disorder, Prognostic Stage I Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage IA Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage IB Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage II Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage IIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage IIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage III Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage IIIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage IIIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Prognostic Stage IIIC Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Stage I Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IA Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IA Ovarian Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IA Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IA1 Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IA2 Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IB1 Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IC Ovarian Cancer AJCC v8

Brief summary

This study develops infertility survey among reproductive age women with gynecological and breast cancer. This study aims to learn how women consider whether or not to try to have a baby after surviving cancer. The advice gathered from this survey may be shared with patients and survivors in the future, so that they have information to inform their decisions about cancer treatment and family planning.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To tailor the National Fertility Barriers (NFB) Survey for women who have had gynecological and breast cancers. II. To administer the tailored survey and evaluate if utilization of infertility clinics and treatments is associated with pregnancies leading to live births after gynecological or breast cancer. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: I. To evaluate whether potential covariates are associated with utilization of infertility clinics and live births after gynecological and breast cancers (e.g. socio-demographic, clinical, psychological, lifestyle, and decision-making characteristics). OUTLINE: FOCUS GROUP: Patients attend an audiotaped focus group over 90 minutes to provide feedback for survey development. SURVEY VALIDATION: Patients complete an online survey over 15-30 minutes at baseline and 2 days later. TELEPHONE SURVEY: Patients complete a telephone survey.

Interventions

Attend focus group

OTHERSurvey Administration

Complete survey

Sponsors

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 45 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* FOCUS GROUP: Women seen at the MD Anderson Oncofertility Clinic and Adolescent and Young Adult Program who are 18-45 years old at the time of cancer diagnosis * SURVEY VALIDATION: Women seen at the MD Anderson Oncofertility Clinic and Adolescent and Young Adult Program who are 18-45 years old at the time of cancer diagnosis * TELEPHONE SURVEY: Women in the California Cancer Registry * TELEPHONE SURVEY: Are 18-45 years old * TELEPHONE SURVEY: Were diagnosed with early-stage ovarian (IA and IC), endometrial (IA), cervical (IA1-IB1), or breast cancer (I-III) * TELEPHONE SURVEY: Are 5-12 years post diagnosis between the years of 2007-2014 * TELEPHONE SURVEY: Underwent fertility-preservation treatments

Exclusion criteria

* FOCUS GROUP: Do not speak English or Spanish * SURVEY VALIDATION: Do not read and understand English * TELEPHONE SURVEY: Do not speak English or Spanish

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Underlying constructsUp to 3 yearsWill be measured by the Oncofertility Barriers Scale. Will perform factor analysis using principal axis factoring with oblique rotation to simplify the construct interpretation.
Known-group validityUp to 3 yearsWill use t-test to compare two groups. If the distributional assumptions are not met, will use the Mann Whitney test.
Convergent validityUp to 3 yearsWill correlate Oncofertility Barriers Scale scores with Evaluation and Nurturing Relationship Issues, Communication and Happiness scores. Analysis of variance will be used to generate a generalizability coefficient for relevant factors, as distributions allow. As distributions allow, will also assess a priori hypotheses that divergence will be observed among groups of women with different ages, cancer types, time since completing cancer treatment, and priori fertility concerns, as well as access to and utilization of fertility care. All tests will be two-sided and use a significance level of 0.05.
Live birthUp to 3 yearsWill compare cancer diagnosis, treatment characteristics and patient reported survey results by live birth (yes versus no) using a 2-sample t-test (or Wilcoxon depending on underlying distribution) and chi-squared test (or Fisher's exact test). Will also conduct logistic regression analysis regressing live birth on predictors of interest, and build a multivariable model based on univariate results including all terms significant at the 0.10 level then refining the model using backwards selection to include variables significant at the 0.05 level in the final model.

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026