Assessment of a Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG) in Advanced Gastro-Intestinal Cancers

Not Recruiting

Trial ID: NCT04077372

Purpose

The purpose of the study is to determine whether standardized implementation of a scripted template for discussing important issues that arise near the end of life improves the care of those who have advanced cancer.

Official Title

A Randomized, Controlled Trial Examining the Use of The "Serious Illness Conversation Guide" (SICG) in Patients With Advanced Gastro-Intestinal Cancers

Stanford Investigator(s)

Tyler Johnson
Tyler Johnson

Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology

Eligibility


Inclusion Criteria:

   - Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer whose tumor has progressed on both FOLFOX
   and FOLFIRI.

   - Exception: Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer whose tumors demonstrate a BRAF
   V600E mutation may be enrolled regardless of prior chemotherapy.

   - Exception: Patients whose tumors are MSI-H must have experience progression through
   immunotherapy in addition to the therapies mentioned above.

   - Patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

   - Patients with metastatic gastric or esophageal cancer whose tumor has progressed
   through first-line chemotherapy of any type.

   - Patients with metastatic cholangiocarcinoma whose tumor has progressed through
   first-line chemotherapy of any type.

   - Patients with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma whose tumor has progressed through
   PD1 blockade.

   - Patients with metastatic high-grade neuroendocrine tumor.

   - A patient with a metastatic GIST that has progressed through first-line tyrosine
   kinase inhibitor.

   - Expected life expectancy of at least one month

Exclusion Criteria:

   - Any patient not meeting the above criteria

   - Non-English speaking patients

Intervention(s):

behavioral: Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG)

behavioral: Quality of Life (QOL) survey

Not Recruiting

Contact Information

Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Daniel Holguin
6507363379

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