Clinical trial · Observational
Quality of Life of Patients Over 75 Yars Undergoing Palliative Chemotherapy
Quality of Life of Patients Over 75 Yars Undergoing Palliative Chemotherapy for Digestive Cancer
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Why stopped (as posted): End of recruitment - Number of required subjects enrolled
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The aim of this research is to evaluate the quality of life of patients over 75 years of age undergoing palliative chemotherapy for digestive cancer. It is a non-interventional study that evaluates the quality of life before and after a cycle of chemotherapy with a composite criterion including: a standardized questionnaire "Cancer specific quality of Life questionnaire" (QLQC30), an assessment of autonomy by "Activity of daily living" questionnaire (ADL), and the number of days of hospitalization.
Conditions
Conditions (6)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biliary Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Colorectal Cancer | Malignant Colorectal Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.80 |
| Gastric Cancer | Malignant Gastric Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.80 |
| Hepatic Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Oesophageal Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Pancreatic Cancer | Malignant Pancreatic Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (0)
Data not yet available
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (0)
[]Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Change in the response scores to the standardized questionnaire Quality of life questionnaire in cancer patient
- timeFrame
- Before first chemotherapy and at Month 3 of chemotherapy
- description
- The primary outcome is a composite criterion comparing the response scores to the standardized questionnaire Quality of life in cancer patient . These data will be collected during the first inpatient chemotherapy course in hospitalization and during the last chemotherapy before evaluation. A higher score would mean a worsening of the situation
Secondary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Change in the Activity of daily living score
- timeFrame
- Before first chemotherapy and at Month 3 of chemotherapy
- description
- The secondary outcome in to compare the Activity of daily living score at first chemotherapy and at the end of the first cycle at 3 months. We will collect the patient's place of residence in order to look for possible institutionalization, which is an important marker of quality of life. A higher score would mean a worsening of the situation.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 75 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Age over 75 years old * Suffering from digestive cancer : colorectal, pancreatic, biliary, oesophageal, gastric * Palliative cancer : not resectable, multimetastatic * Decision in multi-disciplinary liaising meeting (CPR) to perform a first course of palliative chemotherapy * Having received an informed consent form * Understanding french language Exclusion Criteria: * Cognitive disorders * Patient benefiting from a legal protection measure * Life expectancy below 1 year * Not understanding french language
References
Publications (0)
Data not yet available