Clinical trial · Interventional
Breaking Potentially Bad News in Lung Cancer Workup: Telephone Versus In-person Breaking of Final Diagnosis
Psychosocial Consequences of Receiving Results of Lung Cancer Workup by Telephone or In-person
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Disclosure of bad news is challenging for patients, relatives and healthcare providers. Current protocols for breaking bad news assume a single, in-person meeting for breaking bad news, however cancer workup is not a single event but a consecutive process with several contacts between patient and physician. Furthermore, an increasing number of patients receive their cancer diagnosis by telephone. The investigators want to examine whether having the result of lung cancer workup by telephone results in worse psychosocial consequences than having the result in-person. Both groups receive information on possibility of cancer at every patient-physician contact.
Conditions
Conditions (3)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnoses Disease | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Lung Cancer | Malignant Lung Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
| Psychosocial Stressor | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-person meeting | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Telephone call | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- In-person visit
- description
- In-person meeting with the patient in the out-patient department. The patient is free to bring up to four\* relatives or other persons of their own choice to the in-person meeting. (\* Restriction due to space limitation).
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: In-person meeting
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Telephone call
- description
- Telephone call with the patient. The patient is free to turn on loudspeaker to include relatives or other persons in the telephone conversation, alternatively to ask the physician to call and inform one relative or other person after the patient-doctor telephone call
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Telephone call
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: (all are mandatory) 1. suspicions lesions in lung, chest wall or mediastinum at CT or PET-CT 2. a clinician's decision of invasive work-up for suspected or possible malignancy. 3. expected survival of more than 5 weeks (as judged by a local investigator). Exclusion Criteria: 1. age younger than 18 years 2. need of in-patient care 3. disease manifestation needing urgent care (e.g. spinal cord compression, superior vena cava superior syndrome) and 4. inability to provide verbal and written informed consent -
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