Patient Decision Aid in Supporting Decision-Making About When to Start or Stop New Drugs, Join Clinical Trials, or Continue Active Surveillance in Patients With Medullary Thyroid Cancer and Their Caregivers

Study Purpose

This trial develops and studies how well a patient decision aid works in supporting decision-making about when to start or stop new drugs, join clinical trials, or continue active cancer monitoring for patients with medullary thyroid cancer and their caregivers. Developing a patient decision aid may help patients with medullary thyroid cancer make well-informed decisions about their cancer care and be able to discuss their preferences with their doctors.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	Yes
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Interventional
Eligible Ages	18 Years and Over
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Aged 18 years old or older.

- Have or will face(d) this decision, including: Patient/survivor - who has medullary thyroid carcinoma, as determined by a clinician or documented in the Genetics of Endocrine Neoplasia Registry or sporadic (medullary thyroid carcinoma) MTC database; Caregiver/family member - of patient/survivor who has medullary thyroid carcinoma, as nominated by the patient/survivor; and Provider - who treats patients/survivors who have medullary thyroid carcinoma, as described above.

- Able to speak, read, and write English.

- Pregnant patients are included.

Exclusion Criteria:

--Individuals with cognitive or psychological impairment (e.g., depression, anxiety, severe mental illness; as documented in the registry)

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT03892993
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.	N/A
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Elizabeth G Grubbs, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation	M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other, NIH
Overall Status	Recruiting
Countries	United States
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Thyroid Gland Medullary Carcinoma
Study Website:	View Trial Website

Additional Details

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To assess patient/survivor, caregiver/family member, and provider decision-making needs.

II. To design and develop an initial patient decision aid prototype.

III. To pilot test its acceptability.

IV. To evaluate the acceptability and usability of the decision aid prototype from patients/survivors, caregivers and providers in a real world environment.

OUTLINE: Participants use decision aid and complete questionnaire.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

Experimental: Supportive care (decision aid)

Participants use decision aid and complete questionnaires.

Interventions

Other: - Decision Aid

Use decision aid

Other: - Questionnaire Administration

Ancillary studies

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M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Status

Recruiting

Address

M D Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, 77030

Site Contact

Elizabeth G. Grubbs

[email protected]

713-792-6940

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