NCT04766190Active, not recruiting
DISCO: A Patient Intervention to Reduce the Financial Burden of Cancer
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The DISCO App is designed to improve, during the interaction, patient active participation and patient-initiated oncologist treatment cost discussions, and, in the short term, patient's treatment cost knowledge, self-efficacy for managing both cost and physician interactions, referrals, perceived financial toxicity (i.e., distress and material hardship); in turn, these will affect longer-term outcomes of financial toxicity and adherence.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 254 (actual)
- First submitted
- 10 Feb 2021
- Start date
- 10 Feb 2021
- Primary completion date
- 31 Aug 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Lauren Hamel
- Diseases
- Prostate cancer
- NCT number
- NCT04766190
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 254
- From 10 Feb 2021 to the primary completion date, 31 Aug 2027
- 1 site 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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Who the study is looking for
- Oncologists are eligible if they treat patients with breast, prostate, lung, or colorectal cancers at Karmanos Cancer Institute. Data from oncologists will include their self-report data and video-recorded treatment discussions with participating patients.
- Patients: Must be able to read and write in English; have an email account; and are newly diagnosed with breast, prostate, lung or colorectal cancer (stage I-IV) for which systemic therapy is a likely recommended treatment. Data from patients will include their self-report data, video-recorded treatment discussions with participating oncologists, and medical record data
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Detroit | United States | Unknown status |
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