Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Conditions
Brief summary
This clinical trial compares intensive symptom evaluation with supportive care to standard symptom management in patients with head and neck cancer that has not spread to other places in the body (non-metastatic). Standard symptom management involves symptom management during and after radiation therapy, using problem-focused history and physical examination followed by appropriate symptomatic management as appropriate per treating physician's discretion. Intensive symptom management with monitoring patient reported outcomes is performed among patients with metastatic cancers receiving systemic therapies and with various cancers receiving radiation therapy. This trial may help researchers determine the impact of intensive symptom surveillance in patients with non-metastatic head and neck cancers.
Detailed description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. Using study questionnaires to determine the impact of intensive symptom evaluation with supportive care as needed per treating physician's discretion versus standard symptom management on time to first acute care visits at 3 months. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. Using study questionnaires to determine the impact of intensive symptom evaluation with supportive care as needed per treating physician's discretion versus standard symptom management on (1) changes in health-related quality of life (HRQOL), financial burden, and caregiver burden from baseline, (2) time to first acute care visits at 1 or 6 month, (3) locoregional (LRF) and distant failure (DF), and (4) progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) outcomes. II. Using study questionnaires to determine the impact of intensive symptom evaluation with supportive care as needed per treating physician's discretion versus standard symptom management when stratified. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 groups. GROUP A: Patients complete a quality of life questionnaires over 10-15 minutes twice weekly (BIW) during standard of care radiation therapy and once weekly (QW) for the first month after completing standard of care radiation therapy course, and then once monthly for 6 months. GROUP B: Patients receive standard symptom management QW during standard of care radiation therapy for 6 months after completing radiation therapy course.
Interventions
OTHERPalliative Therapy
Receive standard symptom management
OTHERQuality-of-Life Assessment
Complete quality of life questionnaire
OTHERQuestionnaire Administration
Complete quality of life questionnaire
Sponsors
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* PATIENTS: Age \>= 18 years of age * PATIENTS: Diagnosed with biopsy-proven, non-metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck * PATIENTS: Scheduled to start curative-intent radiation therapy within 4 weeks * PATIENTS: Able to provide informed consent in English * PATIENTS: Able to read and write in English * PATIENTS: Participant must understand the investigational nature of this study and sign an Independent Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board approved written informed consent form prior to receiving any study related assessment * PATIENTS' INFORMED CAREGIVER (e.g. family members, friends): They are verbally identified by eligible patients as a caregiver * PATIENTS' INFORMED CAREGIVER (e.g. family members, friends): They are not receiving any payment to provide care for patients * PATIENTS' INFORMED CAREGIVER (e.g. family members, friends): Able to provide informed consent in English * PATIENTS' INFORMED CAREGIVER (e.g. family members, friends): Able to read and write in English
Exclusion criteria
* PATIENTS: Diagnosed with metastatic head and neck cancer * PATIENTS: Eligible for palliative-intent radiation therapy only * PATIENTS: Pregnant female participants * PATIENTS: Unwilling or unable to follow protocol requirements * PATIENTS: Any condition which in the Investigator's opinion deems the participant an unsuitable candidate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first acute care visit | At 3 months | to evaluate the impact of intensive symptom evaluation compared to standard symptom management on time to first acute care visits at 3 months with time to first acute care visits. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in Health-related quality of life EORTC QLQ-C30 | Baseline to 6 months | Patient reported outcome assessment measured data Quality of life data will be obtained via European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Cancer Patients (EORTC QLQ-C30). It It is a 30-item questionnaire assessing other cancer-related symptoms |
| Change in financial burden | Baseline to 6 months | Change in patient reported outcomes measured using the Comprehensive Score for Financial Toxicity (COST). Financial toxicity is assessed using an 11-item patient-reported measure of financial stress used in cancer patients. The COST yields a total score with higher scores indicating less financial toxicity |
| Change in caregiver burden | Baseline to 6 months | Will be evaluated with the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA). Summary score range between 5 and 120. A higher score indicates a higher level of burden. |
| Time to first acute care visits | At 1 or 6 month | Patient reported 9 item questionnaire to evaluate the impact of intensive symptom evaluation compared to standard symptom management on time to first acute care visits at 3 months with time to first acute care visits. |
| Locoregional failure | Time interval from diagnosis to locoregional failure, assessed up to 6 months | Analyzed with the questionnaire and standard of care tumor assessment, disease progression, and survival status information. |
| Distant failure | Time interval from diagnosis to distant failure outside head and neck region, assessed up to 6 months | Analyzed with the questionnaire and standard of care tumor assessment, disease progression, and survival status information. |
| Progression free survival | Time interval from diagnosis to tumor recurrence or progression of disease, assessed up to 6 months | Analyzed with the questionnaire and standard of care tumor assessment, disease progression, and survival status information. |
| Overall survival | Time interval from diagnosis to death from any cause, assessed up to 6 months | Analyzed with the questionnaire and standard of care tumor assessment, disease progression, and survival status information. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORAnurag K Singh
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Outcome results
None listed