Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Guaranteed Income and Financial Treatment

Lead Sponsor:

Meredith Doherty, PhD, LCSW

Collaborating Sponsors:

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Conditions:

Cancer

Financial Hardship

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if providing advanced cancer patients with $1000/month for 12 months will improve cancer outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: To what extent...

Detailed Description

Cancer-related financial hardship (i.e., financial toxicity) has been associated with anxiety and depression, greater pain and symptom burden, treatment nonadherence, and mortality. Out-of-pocket heal...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age = 18 or older
  • Newly diagnosed or recurrent advanced cancer (Stage 3 or 4)
  • Receiving chemotherapy or immunotherapy (with or without radiation) at one of the recruitment sites
  • Within 12 months of receiving systemic therapy and on surveillance at one of the recruitment sites
  • ECOG performance status of 1 - 2
  • A Pennsylvania Medicaid beneficiary
  • A Pennsylvania resident

Exclusion

  • Eligible for hospice (i.e. determined by provider to have a prognosis of 6 months or less) at time of randomization
  • Unable to communicate in English, Spanish, or Mandarin

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

April 1 2023

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

July 30 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

250 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06611982

Start Date

April 1 2023

End Date

July 30 2026

Last Update

July 11 2025

Active Locations (3)

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Pennsylvania Hospital

Philadelphia, New York, United States, 19107

2

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104

3

Jefferson Health

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107