Phone reminders from family doctors to encourage colorectal cancer screening
Tests doctor phone calls to boost screening in people overdue for colorectal cancer checks.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- MSPU des 3 Provinces
- Where
- Champlitte, FranceSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Optimizing Participation In Colorectal Cancer Screening By Direct Invitation Of Non Responders By General Practitionners
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 10,000 people, planned
- Starts
- 1 Dec 2026
- Expected to end
- 1 Mar 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Intervention
- Record updated
- 29 September 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for people aged 50 to 75 who are patients of general practitioners in the Franche-Comté region and are not up to date with colorectal cancer screening.
- Age
- 50 to 75 years (the registry also lists 50 to 74 years)
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- The patient objects to their data being used for research.
- The patient is not covered by the French general health insurance scheme or the agricultural social insurance scheme.
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Practice in one of the four departments of the Franche-Comté region
- Practice in a solo practice, group practice, multidisciplinary primary care centre, or community health centre
- Are engaged in general medical practice
- Have agreed to participate in the study
- Patients within the practice population of general practitioners selected to participate in the study
- Aged between 50 and 75 years inclusive
- Affiliated with the French general health insurance scheme or the agricultural social insurance scheme
Who cannot take part
- Practice exclusively in a specialty other than general practice (e.g., osteopathy, allergology, vascular medicine); Non-inclusion Criteria for patients:
- Objection expressed by the patient to the change in the purpose of data processing for research purposes
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 50 and 74 years old?
Where in France
- MSPU des 3 provincesChamplitte, FranceContact: José-Philippe MORENO, MD (principal investigator)Not yet recruiting
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this randomized trial is to assess the effectiveness of a targeted telephone reminder strategy, implemented by the patient's general practitioner, in enhancing participation in colorectal cancer screening among individuals who are not up to date. The participants are patients between 50 and 74 years old, as they are the target population for colorectal cancer screening. The main questions are:
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* What is the percentage of patients who completed the colorectal cancer screening test during the intervention year, within the patient population of general practitioners participating in the study and identified as not up to date with their screening? * Identifying potential factors influencing the effectiveness of the intervention, based on various characteristics of the patient, the geographical area, the general practitioner, and the caller.
Researchers will compare these patients with other patients who are not up to date and did not receive the telephone reminder intervention from their general practitioner.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Intervention Arm : phone-based outreach to promote colorectal cancer screeningTreatment being tested
In year n, the 50 selected general practitioners will receive a list of patients who are not up to date with colorectal cancer screening from the national health insurance. Each patient's screening status will be verified by the clinical research associate through a review of the medical records. A telephone call will then be made by a member of the patient's primary care team.
Treatment: Intervention
- Control armNo study treatment, for comparison
In year n, the 50 selected general practitioners will receive from the national health insurance a list of patients who are not up to date with colorectal cancer screening. Each patient's screening status will be verified by the clinical research associate through a review of the medical records. There will be no intervention.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Optimizing Participation In Colorectal Cancer Screening By Direct Invitation Of Non Responders By General Practitionners: A Randomized Controlled Cluster Trial
- Plain-language title
- Phone reminders from family doctors to encourage colorectal cancer screeningGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 13 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07639554, who can take part
- Record updated
- 29 September 2026