Outpatient Health Care Program for Older Patients Receiving Chemotherapy for Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer or Colon Cancer

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Gathering health information from older patients undergoing chemotherapy may help doctors plan better treatment and improve the quality of life for these patients.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well an outpatient health care program works for older patients receiving chemotherapy for newly diagnosed breast cancer or colon cancer.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma, including one of the following:

• Breast cancer (female), meeting the following criteria:

• Stage I-III (T1-4, N0-3, M0) disease

• Has undergone complete surgical removal of invasive cancer by mastectomy or lumpectomy

• Has undergone either sentinel lymph node dissection or axillary lymph node dissection with adequate TNM staging

• Colon cancer (male or female), meeting the following criteria:

• Stage I-III (T1-3, any N, M0) disease

• Has undergone appropriate surgical resection with TNM staging

• Newly diagnosed disease

• Scheduled to receive chemotherapy

• Agrees to receive chemotherapy AND is able to receive chemotherapy within 3 months after surgery

• No distant metastases

• Hormone receptor status not specified

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Menopausal status not specified

• Life expectancy ≥ 6 months

• Fluent in English

• Not living in a nursing home

• No end-stage disease

• No severe dementia

• No other clinically active malignancy within the past 5 years or within 3 months after diagnosis of current malignancy

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Disease Characteristics

• No prior chemotherapy for the malignancy

• More than 1 year since prior treatment on an inpatient/outpatient geriatric evaluation and management unit