Clinical trial · Interventional
Take the Fight in Supporting and Empowering Patients With Cancer
A Pilot Study of 'Take the Fight' as Community-Based Participatory Research
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Why stopped (as posted): Funding Issue
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This pilot clinical trial studies Take the Fight in supporting and empowering patients with cancer through their treatment process. Patients with cancer are faced with many obstacles created by the current state of the healthcare system. The purpose of Take the Fight is to train college students, also called patients' navigators or strategists, to assist and support patients to navigate into the healthcare system and receive the care they need. The strategists are matched with patients and attend/coordinate most patients' medical appointments. The strategists also advance communications between the patient and the medical staff to facilitate both the exchange of medical information as well as increase the patient's compliance with treatment. Take the Fight may improve the health and quality of life outcomes of cancer patients during critical treatment periods by increasing treatment compliance, eliminating barriers to better care, and increasing clinical trial participation.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Subject | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Malignant Neoplasm | Malignant Neoplasm | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (3)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality-of-Life Assessment | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Questionnaire Administration | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Supportive Care | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Supportive care (Take the Fight)
- description
- Patients receive patient navigation via strategists from the Take the Fight for 8 weeks. Patients also complete interviews regarding perceived physical, logistical, psychosocial, and informational challenges experienced prior to meeting with strategists/navigators and how challenges were addressed by navigator or others, perceived benefits or limitations of navigator assistance. Strategists also complete interviews regarding their perceptions on how patients benefited from participation, challenges patients experienced that were directly or indirectly related to their cancer diagnosis and treatment, how these concerns were addressed, barriers to addressing these concerns, and patient health literacy.
- interventionNames
- Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
- Other: Questionnaire Administration
- Procedure: Supportive Care
Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Change in patients self-reported outcomes using European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life-Cancer 30 (QLQ-C30) questionnaire
- timeFrame
- Baseline to up to 18 weeks
- description
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 19 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * PATIENTS ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA * Have histologically confirmed cancer * Karnofsky performance scale (KPS) score of \>= 60 * The ability to understand and be willing to sign an informed consent document * Willing to undergo a form of cancer therapy and subsequent follow-up care * STRATEGISTS INCLUSION CRITERIA * Age \>= 18 years * Wake Forest University student * Have volunteered as a student strategist at Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU); all strategists are required to have gone through Take the Fight (TTF) training prior to their volunteer work
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