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Community Health Workers and Precision Medicine
Not Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT04843332
Purpose
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether a trained community health worker (CHW) who engages with newly diagnosed patients after a diagnosis of cancer can effectively improve knowledge and receipt of evidence-based precision medicine cancer care services among low-income and minority patients.
Official Title
Reducing Cancer Disparities Through Innovative Community-Academic Partnership to Advance Access and Delivery of Precision Medicine in Monterey County
Stanford Investigator(s)
Manali Patel
Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
* Newly diagnosed patients with a cancer diagnosis.
* Patients with any relapse or progressive disease (any cancer diagnosis) as identified by imaging or biopsy and confirmed by a physician.
* The patients must be 18 years or older.
* Patients must have the capacity to verbally consent in English or Spanish.
* Patients must be racial/ethnic minorities OR low-income status OR public insurance (Medi-Cal or other) OR have health insurance provided by an agricultural company OR be uninsured
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients under 18 years of age.
* Inability to consent to the study due to lack of capacity as documented by the referring physician.
* Patients without a newly diagnosed malignancy or patients without relapse of disease.
Intervention(s):
behavioral: Community Health Worker Support
Not Recruiting
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Manali I Patel, MD, MPH, MS
650-498-6000