RECRUITING

Designing Visual Tools to Enhance Cancer Surgeon Decision-making

Study Overview

This clinical trial focuses on testing the efficacy of different digital interventions to promote re-engagement in cancer-related long-term follow-up care for adolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors of childhood cancer.

Description

This prospective study will compare pre-post pilot test of surgeon-facing, visual decision support among urologists seeing patients with newly diagnosed localized prostate and kidney cancer. Up to 20 urologists (10 academic and 10 community) will be enrolled. The goal will be to capture up to 10 pre- and 10 post-intervention patient encounters for each urologist with an accrual target of 200 unique patient visits (100 pre and 100 post-intervention) over a half-year period. Patient encounters pre- and post-intervention will be audio recorded, transcribed, and coded for discussion of risks/benefits of surgery and strength of recommendation. Patients and urologists will complete additional surveys on their perceptions of patient-provider communication. Urologists will further describe their experience and rate their satisfaction with visual decision support. Communication (content and perceived) will be compared pre- and post-intervention with secondary comparisons by race and care setting. It was hypothesized that the discussion of risks and benefits of cancer surgery will increase post-intervention and that the strength of recommendation and perceptions of patient-provider communication will change. The secondary hypothesis is that these changes will differ by patient race and care setting.

Official Title

Designing Visual Tools to Enhance Cancer Surgeon Decision-making

Quick Facts

Study Start:2025-04-24
Study Completion:2025-11-30
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT06965192

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:18 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:No
Standard Ages:ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Verbal informed consent was obtained to participate in the study.
  2. * Subject is willing and able to comply with study procedures based on the judgment of the investigator or protocol designee.
  3. * Age ≥ 18 years at the time of consent.
  4. * For patient subjects, HIPAA authorization for the release of personal health information and a new histologic diagnosis of localized prostate cancer based on prostate biopsy or clinical diagnosis of T1 renal mass (≤7 cm in diameter) Suspicion for kidney cancer based on cross-sectional imaging. New diagnosis is defined as within 6 months of consent. T1 renal masses include solid masses or Bosniak III/IV cystic masses.
  5. * For physician subjects, practicing urologist in North Carolina at UNC Health, Novant Health, or an affiliated site and sees patients with suspected or confirmed prostate or kidney cancer.
  1. * Non-English speaking.
  2. * Unwilling or unable to complete informed consent.
  3. * For patient subjects:
  4. 1. Has staging information indicating locally advanced or metastatic disease. This would include PSA \>50 ng/ml, imaging suggestive of distant metastasis, or lymph node involvement, renal masses \>7 cm or invading in renal sinus or tumor thrombus.
  5. 2. Histologic or clinical diagnosis \>6 months before date of consent.

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Deborah Usinger
CONTACT
(919) 962-5431
dusinger@unc.edu
Taylor Greene
CONTACT
taylor_greene@med.unc.edu

Principal Investigator

Hung-Jui Tan, MD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Study Locations (Sites)

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599
United States
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, North Carolina, 28401
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

  • Hung-Jui Tan, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2025-04-24
Study Completion Date2025-11-30

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2025-04-24
Study Completion Date2025-11-30

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Prostate Cancer
  • Kidney Cancer