NCT06420206Recruiting
Goals of Care Discussion for Patients With Advanced Lung and Gastrointestinal Cancer in the Emergency Department of a Comprehensive Cancer Center
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
To improve quality of life for participants with advanced cancer, support their families, and lower overall cost of care.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 200 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 14 May 2024
- Start date
- 14 May 2024
- Primary completion date
- 2 Feb 2027
- Lead sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Diseases
- Lung cancer
- NCT number
- NCT06420206
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 200
- From 14 May 2024 to the primary completion date, 2 Feb 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
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Other illness
- Participant has a history of dementia documented in the medical records
Other
- Participant is already enrolled in hospice
- Participant is comatose
- Participant has severe intellectual disability
- Participant has baseline communication barriers such as aphasia or deafness
- Participant is new to MDACC, without established oncology care at our institution at time of ACCC arrival
- Participant is 18 years or older, currently cared for by pediatrics service
- Pregnant women
- Prisoners
Who the study is looking for
- Participant is at least 18 years old presenting to the triage area of the MDACC ACCC for treatment
- Participant has advanced lung or GI cancer. Advanced cancer patient defined as: locally recurrent or metastatic for which there is no curative treatment available.
- Participant screens positive for at least 2 of 3 triple threat conditions (dyspnea, altered mental status, or poor performance status)
- Participant has the ability to speak and write in English
- Participant has the ability to provide consent OR is accompanied by a LAR able to provide consent
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
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