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Stepped Palliative Care Versus Early Integrated Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Summary
This research study is evaluating ways to provide palliative care to patients who have recently been diagnosed with lung cancer
Official title: Randomized Trial of Stepped Palliative Care Versus Early Integrated Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
507
Start Date
2018-02-01
Completion Date
2023-12-31
Last Updated
2026-08-03
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Stepped PC
Palliative Care is involvement of a team of clinicians that specialize in lessening (or "palliating") many of these distressing physical and emotional symptoms and in helping patients and their family cope with a serious illness improves patients' and their loved ones' experience with their cancer
Early Integrated PC
Palliative Care is involvement of a team of clinicians that specialize in lessening (or "palliating") many of these distressing physical and emotional symptoms and in helping patients and their family cope with a serious illness improves patients' and their loved ones' experience with their cancer
Locations (3)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States