RATIONALE: Gathering information about quality of life, fatigue, and other symptoms from patients with myelodysplastic syndromes may help doctors learn more about the disease and may help plan treatment. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying quality of life and symptoms in patients with newly diagnosed myelodysplastic syndromes.
This study will ultimately aim at providing the scientific community with additional patient-reported health status data to support and further facilitate the clinical decision-making process. This project has thus a number of goals. The main objective of the protocol is to improve our understanding of the possible added prognostic value of patients' judgment on their own health status and its potential clinical implications. This would aim at providing clinicians with an easy and brief to administer patient-reported health status scale or tool to be used to make more informed treatment decisions. In addition, along with other recent evidence (also looking at the prognostic value of patients' health status judgment in MDS patients), the data of this research could possibly serve to devise a patient-based prognostic index to be used in this higher risk population.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
927
To investigate the prognostic value of baseline patients' reported fatigue for overall survival in newly diagnosed myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
To investigate the prognostic value of changes overtime of QoL and symptoms for clinical outcomes.
i.e. overall survival, AML transformation, toxicity and response to therapy.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
To describe prospectively short and long-term symptom burden and QoL outcomes by risk group and by type of therapy.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
To compare the QoL of lower risk patients who maintain stable disease versus those who have progressed to AML or higher-risk score categories.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
To compare the QoL and symptoms baseline reference data to be used as benchmarks for comparisons in clinical trials.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
To establish international QoL and symptoms baseline reference data to be used as benchmarks for comparisons in clinical trials.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
To evaluate the impact of transfusion dependency at baseline and over time on survival and QoL outcomes.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
To devise a prognostic patient-based index.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
New York, New York, United States
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States
Innsbruck University Hospital
Innsbruck, Austria
ZNA Middelheim
Antwerp, Belgium
AZ Sint-Jan AV, Department of Hematology
Bruges, Belgium
CH Jolimont
Brussels, Belgium
CHC - Centre Hospitalier Chrétien
Liège, Belgium
Curitiba Unidade de Hematologia - Hemoterapia e Oncologia. Setor de Transplante de Medula Ossea. Complexo Hospital de Clinicas da Universidade Federal do Parana (CHC-UFPR)
Curitiba, Brazil
Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China, China
Kunming Medical University
Kunming, China
...and 43 more locations
To evaluate accuracy of clinical prediction of survival.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.
To assess patients' preferences for involvement in treatment decision-making across different risk group and examine relationships between preferences and patient characteristics.
Time frame: After 5 years from study entry.