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Smoking Cessation Intervention for Cancer Patients

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Led By Jamie Ostroff, PhD

Research Sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Age 18 years or older

Diagnosed with cancer or have a mass suspicious of cancer that is NOT distant metastatic cancer at the time of enrollment

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 6-8 months

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial is testing a new way to help cancer patients quit smoking before and after surgery, compared to the current standard of care.

Who is the study for?

This trial is for adults over 18 with cancer or a mass that might be cancer, who are not in the distant metastatic stage and are candidates for surgery in no less than 7 days. Participants must be mentally sound, able to use a phone and PDA, willing to consent, and smoke more than 8 cigarettes daily or frequently use other tobacco.Check my eligibility

What is being tested?

The study compares two smoking cessation methods before surgery: one uses scheduled reduced smoking plus nicotine patches; the other employs hospital counseling alongside nicotine patches. The goal is to determine which method better helps patients quit tobacco use pre- and post-surgery.See study design

What are the potential side effects?

Potential side effects from nicotine replacement therapy can include skin irritation from patches, sleep problems (insomnia), headache, dizziness, racing heartbeat (tachycardia), muscle pain and stiffness, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea/constipation.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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I am 18 years old or older.

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I have cancer or a mass that may be cancer, but it has not spread far from where it started.

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I do not have any severe mental health issues or cognitive impairments.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 6-8 months

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~6-8 months

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 6-8 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

efficacy of a presurgical smoking cessation intervention that adds scheduled reduced smoking, a highly effective behavioral treatment in non-medically ill tobacco users, to enhanced usual care, i.e., hospital counseling and nicotine replacement therapy.

Secondary outcome measures

whether addition of a presurgical scheduled reduced smoking intervention improves smoking cessation and long-term abstinence rates c/w hospital counseling and nicotine transdermal patch (enhanced usual care) for recently diagnosed cancer patients.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: 2Experimental Treatment1 Intervention

Hospital Counseling + Nicotine Replacement Therapy + Pre-surgical Schedule Reduced Smoking (HC+NRT+PS/SRS)

Group II: 1Active Control1 Intervention

Hospital Counseling + Nicotine Replacement Therapy (HC+NRT)

0 / 3Eligibility criteria met

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterLead Sponsor

1,933 Previous Clinical Trials

585,416 Total Patients Enrolled

5 Trials studying Cancer Patients

1,886 Patients Enrolled for Cancer Patients

M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterOTHER

2,966 Previous Clinical Trials

1,804,577 Total Patients Enrolled

Jamie Ostroff, PhDPrincipal InvestigatorMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

16 Previous Clinical Trials

6,142 Total Patients Enrolled

Media Library

Hospital Counseling + Nicotine Replacement + Presurgical Scheduled Reduced Smoking 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT00575718 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Are there any more volunteers needed for this research project?

"Unfortunately, this study is not currently recruiting patients. Although, according to clinicaltrials.gov, it was last updated on September 27th of this year and originally posted on October 22nd 2002. There is one other similar trial that is presently accepting patients."

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Recent research and studies

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Smoking Cessation Intervention for Cancer Patients

2002. "Smoking Cessation Intervention for Cancer Patients". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00575718.

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