NCT00712751Completed
The Sexual Health of Rectal Cancer Patients
The Sexual Health of Rectal Cancer Patients: A Pilot Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
We know that treatment for rectal, colorectal or anal cancer can impact sexual function. This study aims to learn: * How the treatment affects emotional and social well-being. * How a new sexual health educational program affects you. Cancer patients seek education for lots of reasons. It often helps them cope because they can express their feelings with a trained professional. This study is open to individuals who have been treated for rectal, colorectal or anal cancer. It involves a new type of sexual health counseling program. It will teach participants skills that they can use to improve their sex lives. These skills may also improve physical and emotional well-being. We will compare the new type of sexual health program with the standard care patients receive after treatment for rectal, colorectal or anal cancer.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 149 (actual)
- First submitted
- 7 Jul 2008
- Start date
- 24 Jun 2008
- Primary completion date
- 21 Nov 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Diseases
- Colorectal cancer
- NCT number
- NCT00712751
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 149
- From 24 Jun 2008 to the primary completion date, 21 Nov 2024
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Significant cognitive or psychiatric disturbance sufficient, in the investigator's judgment, to preclude participation in a psychotherapeutic intervention.
Other
- Are actively participating in protocol 06-151
- Participated in focus group or qualitative interview.
Who the study is looking for
- At least six months post radiation and/or surgery for stage I-III rectal adenocarcinoma or rectosigmoid for cancer with an anastomosis at 15 cm or below and completed treatment
- At least six months post radiation and/or chemotherapy for anal cancer.
- Have no evidence of disease or recurrence
- For women indicate Indicate moderate satisfaction or below on their overall sexual life (a score of "4" or lower on the question "Over the past 4 weeks, how satisfied have you been with your overall sexual life?"
- For men indicate, and a score of "3" or lower on the question "How would you rate your confidence that you could get and keep an erection" for men) and a score of "2" or higher on the question "How much does this problem bother you?
- In the judgment of the consenting professional interventionists, able to communicate in English well enough to work with English speaking and complete the study assessments.
- Age 21 years or older.
Age in the registry: 21 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Sinai Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
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