The purpose of this study is to assess quality-of-life of men with prostate cancer. "Quality-of-life" means how you feel about your life as a result of your disease and its treatment. The investigators hope that this questionnaire will help show how prostate cancer treatments affect quality-of-life. It will help doctors and future patients to make better treatment choices. Some men may wish to have a more demanding treatment with a higher risk of harmful effects. Others may prefer a treatment that will have the smallest effect on their quality-of-life. This questionnaire will help us measure these effects and decide which is the best treatment for a given patient.
The intent of the protocol is to assess health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) in men treated for localized prostate cancer with 1 of 6 established management alternatives: external (XRT)or interstitial radiotherapy (IRT), open radical prostatectomy (RP), laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP), combined radiotherapy and brachytherapy (Combined RT) or watchful waiting (WW). HRQOL is an important aspect of any treatment for prostate cancer due to the beliefs by many that cancer control rates are similar across common modalities and HRQOL reduction from treatment is substantial (1-5). Therefore, HRQOL appears to occupy a central role in the decision making process related to treatment selection.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1,800
The phone interview will consist of the following items from the follow up questionnaire; 14, 16, 20, 32, 33, 46, 47, 60, and 65. An additional component of this study would be dispensing the HRQOL tool to long-term survivors 10 years or greater after the completion of therapy. The long term QoL study will be a cross-sectional assessment measuring HRQOL in prostate cancer survivors, free of disease at least ten years post-treatment. Patients will complete a questionnaire by selfreport focusing on assessment of HRQOL.
The content of the WBDC questionnaire will be similar to the paper form, no alteration in the wording, the order, or the formate of the items will be done. In addition, at the time of each outpatient clinic visit to MSKCC, these subjects will be able to login to WBDC using a computer located in the patient waiting-area, and enter their responses to the different items of the questionnaire if their clinic visit corresponds to any of the study time points 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 24, 36, and 48 following treatment). An additional component of this study would be dispensing the HRQOL tool to long-term survivors 10 years or greater after the completion of therapy. The long term QoL study will be a cross-sectional assessment measuring HRQOL in prostate cancer survivors, free of disease at least ten years post-treatment. Patients will complete a questionnaire by selfreport focusing on assessment of HRQOL.
Memoral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk
Commack, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering at Mercy Medical Center
Rockville Centre, New York, United States
Memoral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center@Phelps
Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States
Assessment of temporal trends in HRQOL according to intervention group
Time frame: study time points 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 24, 36, and 48 following treatment)and between 60 and 96 months.
Assessment of scale score differences between treatment groups
Time frame: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 24, 36, 48 months and between 60 and 96 months
Describe the quality of life of long-term survivors
of prostate cancer following treatment
Time frame: 10 years post treatment
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