Achieving Self-directed Integrated Cancer Aftercare (ASICA) in Melanoma

Study Purpose

The ASICA study is looking at how the UK National Health Service (NHS) might use technology in the future to more effectively support people who have been treated for melanoma.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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No
Study Type

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An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes.


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Interventional
Eligible Ages 18 Years and Over
Gender All
More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • - Adult (≥18) - Patients treated for stage 0-2C cutaneous melanoma within the preceding 24 months

    Exclusion Criteria:

    - Stage 3 and 4 melanoma.
  • - Previous local recurrence of melanoma within last 24 months.
  • - Patients who are unable to consent and/or complete questionnaires (e.g. due to cognitive or language issues).
  • - Patients who are blind or visually impaired.

Trial Details

Trial ID:

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NCT03328247
Phase

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N/A
Lead Sponsor

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University of Aberdeen
Principal Investigator

The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.

Peter Murchie, MBChB, PhD
Principal Investigator Affiliation University of Aberdeen
Agency Class

Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.

Other
Overall Status Not yet recruiting
Countries
Conditions

The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.

Melanoma
Additional Details

All patients who have been treated for melanoma are advised to regularly examine their own skin (total-skin-self-examinations; TSSE) but research has found that many people are not shown how to do this effectively. We are investigating whether a digital app we have developed (ASICA) can help people with melanoma to use a hand-held tablet computer to do more regular and effective TSSE, and whether this would lead to earlier detection of recurrent and new primary melanomas. The ASICA app also uses the internet to enable people to electronically communicate the findings of their TSSE to a specialist nurse. All those who consent to take part in the study will be randomly allocated into one of two groups. One group will use the ASICA app in addition to their normal follow-up, the other group will continue to attend their routine melanoma follow-up only. Participants will be recruited from two UK sites

  • - NHS Grampian and Cambridge University Hospitals.

Contact Information

This trial has no sites locations listed at this time. If you are interested in learning more, you can contact the trial's primary contact:

Joanna Kaniewska, PhD

j.kaniewska@abdn.ac.uk

0122443

For additional contact information, you can also visit the trial on clinicaltrials.gov.

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