Status:

COMPLETED

Communicating With Patients on Cancer Resistance to Treatment: the Development of a Communication Tool. (HECTOR)

Lead Sponsor:

Institut Curie

Conditions:

Metastatic Uveal Melanoma

Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Resistance to treatment is one of the major themes in cancer research. Despite this, the definition and clinical implications of resistance to treatment remain under-explored, and patient-physician co...

Detailed Description

Although a challenge, better communicating around resistance to treatment carries many potential benefits. Indeed, in similar contexts of announcement of bad news and choice of care, Parker and collab...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients:
  • To be 18 years of age or older ;
  • To have metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM) or triple negative or luminal B breast cancer ;
  • To have received the information that the disease is resistant to treatment ;
  • To have read the information and signed the informed consent.
  • Parents of a sick child:
  • To be a parent (parental authority holder) of a child with cancer ;
  • To have received the information that the child disease is resistant to treatment ;
  • To have read the information and signed the informed consent.
  • Expert patients:
  • To be 18 years of age or older ;
  • To have had cancer (regardless the cancer site) ;
  • To participated to an expert patient training (fine knowledge of the illness, experience with the disease) ;
  • To have read the information and signed the informed consent.
  • Professionals:
  • To be an oncologist (medical oncologist, surgeon, radiotherapist, supportive care specialist) and/or to be a researcher in oncology (doctor, biologist, geneticist ...) ;
  • To have patients with a triple-negative or luminal B breast cancer or metastatic uveal melanoma which is resistant to anti-tumor treatments and/or to take part to a research on resistance to cancer treatment;
  • To have read the information and signed the informed consent.

Exclusion

  • Patients \& parents of a sick child:
  • To have difficulties in understanding the French language.
  • Have or have had cancer (criteria only for parents);
  • Pregnant woman, likely to be pregnant or breastfeeding (criteria only for patients).
  • Persons deprived of their liberty or under guardianship;
  • Impossibility of study requirements respect for geographical, social or psychological reasons.
  • Expert patients:
  • To have difficulties in understanding the French language ;
  • Currently being undergoing anti-tumor treatment.
  • Professionals:
  • To have difficulties in understanding the French language ;
  • Not to be confronted in professional practice with resistance to anti-tumor treatments.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 2 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 26 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

128 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04118062

Start Date

February 2 2021

End Date

May 26 2024

Last Update

September 19 2025

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Institut Curie

Paris, France, 75005