Grant Number:	5R01CA152195-05 Interpret this number
Primary Investigator:	Dohan, Daniel
Organization:	University Of California, San Francisco
Project Title:	Before Consent: Cancer Patients' Deliberations About Early Phase Clinical Trials
Fiscal Year:	2014

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal by a new investigator examines decisions made by advanced cancer patients regarding early phase clinical trials. Advances in basic and translational research may herald the arrival of new, targeted therapies that will improve cancer treatment and reduce mortality, but all of these therapies must be tested for safety in early phase (EP) clinical trials before they can benefit the public. Recruiting more patients to EP trials may speed the development of new cancer therapies, and some have argued that trials< participation is a societal obligation. But, those who participate in early phase trials - advanced cancer patients who have run out of standard therapeutic options - are a highly vulnerable population, and current procedures to ensure informed consent are not robust. Even as bioethicists and social and behavioral scientists seek to improve the informed consent process in EP cancer trials, less attention has focused on patients< decision-making in the period before the consent process begins. This study provides a rich descriptive and longitudinal perspective of the "pre-consent" period via three specific aims. For aim 1, focus groups are used to describe providers< role in early phase recruitment. In aim 2, an Advanced Cancer Cohort (ACC, n=150) is assembled using validated quantitative instruments, qualitative interviews, and clinic participant- observation to gather data on ACC patients' EP experiences and decisions as well as the perspectives of family caregivers and providers. Aim 3 analyzes ACC patients< awareness and knowledge of early phase trials (aim 3a), which patients decide to participate in trials and how they make this decision (aim 3b), and the nature and outcome of the informed consent process (aim 3c). Through the development of rich understandings of early phase decision-making before consent, the study findings may have relevance for clinician-investigators and early phase trial programs throughout the United States. The study may identify approaches that can increase EP trial enrollment while also improving patients< ability to provide meaningful informed consent for EP participation.




Decision-making about clinical trial options among older patients with metastatic cancer who have exhausted standard therapies.
Authors: Tsang M. , DeBoer R.J. , Garrett S.B. , Dohan D. .
Source: Journal Of Geriatric Oncology, 2022 Jun; 13(5), p. 594-599.
EPub date: 2022-02-04 00:00:00.0.
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Qualitative Coding in the Computational Era: A Hybrid Approach to Improve Reliability and Reduce Effort for Coding Ethnographic Interviews.
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