Compliance to Cervical Cancer Chemoradiation Guidelines: A Multicentric Implementation Audit and Resource Assessment Initiative of National Cancer Grid of India
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Not applicable- observational study.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cervical Cancer Screening, Gynecologic Cancers, Treatment Compliance, Chemoradiotherapy. Basic parameters: No limits · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- India
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Compliance to Cervical Cancer Chemoradiation Guidelines: A Implementation Audit and Resource Assessment Initiative of National Cancer Grid of India
Overview
This is a combination of retrospective and prospective observational study that will be performed across NCG and other participating centers to report compliance to chemoradiation for cervical cancer. This audit will include patients treated with standard of care treatment, in this case definitive or adjuvant radiation+/- concurrent chemotherapy will be included. Patients recruited in various institutions in prospective clinical trials will not be included. The participating centersthat agree to contribute data will include all registered cases over a 6-month period that have been diagnosed with cervical cancer wherein treatment is planned with radical dose radiation and/or concurrent chemotherapy. Centers that do not have retrospective data of the patients will contribute data of patients registered prospectively over 6 months. Furthermore, any cases referred to the institution for brachytherapy alone will also be included. As a first step member institutions that participated in guideline development process or provide an agreement to guidelines adherence will be audited. The project will be submitted in institutional ethics committees with memorandum of understanding for anonymized data sharing. Each of the co-investigators listed from contributing centers will be directly responsible for collecting data contribution and accuracy of data submitted. Those centres which cannot or do not want to participate will be requested to provide data on only compliance outcomes to treatment for at least of 5 consecutively patients diagnosed with cervical cancer wherein treatment is planned with radical dose radiation and /or concurrent chemotherapy over a period of 6 months.
Detailed description
Investigator intend to use electronic case record form (e-CRF) created using on line portal (google e-forms) wherein details of patients treated within the 6 month period will be captured. Google e-CRF will be available to all participating centres free of charge and has ease of access for filling details on both computer, tablets or mobile phone platforms. The e-form is user friendly and provides automated excel output and basic trends of responses and is ideal to be used across busy departments and low resource settings.
To maintain data security, no patient identifying information will be collected. Each institution will be provided an institution id and name identifiers will not be used. Similarly a code will be generated for each of the patient and details of that code will remain with the parent institution.
Interventions
- Other Not applicable- observational study
Compliance to Cervical Cancer Chemoradiation treatment guidelines
Primary outcome measures
- report on institutional compliance to National Cancer Grid cervical cancer guidelines for chemo-radiation. [Time frame: 3 Months]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- To report on factors impacting compliance to standard guidelines [Time frame: 3years]
- To report adequacy of infrastructural and manpower requirements for optimal treatment of cervical cancer in NCG centres and corresponding state of origin [Time frame: 3 years]
- To compute relative risk of suboptimal treatment for cervical cancer in reference to infrastructural and manpower deficits [Time frame: 3 years]
Eligibility criteria
The participating centers that agree to contribute data will include all registered cases over a 6 month period that have been diagnosed with histologically proven cervical cancer wherein either radical, adjuvant or palliative radiation with or without concurrent or systemic chemotherapy is planned.
Furthermore any cases referred to the institution for brachytherapy alone will also be included.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Case-only
Study locations
India · 2 centers
- Tata Memorial Hospital — Mumbai
- Tata Memorial Hospital — Mumbai
Publications
- Dr. V. K. Srivastava, Dr Tanvir Kaur, Dr. S Shrisvastava () CONSENSUS DOCUMENT FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CANCER CERVIX, Available at: https://www.icmr.nic.in > sites > default > files > reports > Cervix Cance (Accessed: 12th December 2019).
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Identifiers
NCT: NCT07290972 · TMC IEC III 900537