Dose Adaptation of Capecitabine Using Mobile Phone Toxicity Monitoring

University of Oxford26 enrolled

Overview

To develop a system to manage side effects and adjust chemotherapy dose such that a patient can receive their personal maximum tolerated dose.

Patients with metastatic colorectal or breast cancer will be recruited. * Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: capecitabine alone or capecitabine + oxaliplatin for 8 3-week cycles * Metastatic Breast Cancer: capecitabine alone or capecitabine + docetaxel for 8 3-week cycles. All patients will be given a mobile phone onto which they will enter any side-effects experienced prior to taking capecitabine in the morning and evening. Any grade 3 or 4 symptoms will trigger an alert to a pager held by the ward-staff for immediate attention. Thus, patients' severe side-effects will be monitored in real time and the trial will allow real-time dose reductions during cycles and dose-increases at clinics. Patient experience in the trial will also be evaluated during their participation in the trial. Patients will already be receiving the drug prior to this study and will not be administered to patients as part of this study.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Metastatic Breast Cancer

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Metastatic colorectal or breast cancer patients commencing treatment on one of four specified regimens For metastatic colorectal cancer: * capecitabine 2000mg/m2 d 1-14, q 3 weekly and oxaliplatin 130mg/m2 d1 q 3 weekly (CAPOX) * capecitabine 2500mg/m2 d 1-14, q 3 weekly For metastatic breast cancer: * capecitabine 2000mg/m2d 1-14, q 3 weekly * capecitabine 2000mg/m2 d 1-14, q 3 weekly and docetaxel 75mg/m2 d1 q 3 weekly * Age \> 18 years * Fit to start at full (100%) starting dose of all drugs * Able and willing to use mobile phone * Reasonable renal, liver and bone marrow function * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \>1.5 x 109/L * Platelet count \> 100 x 109/L * Total bilirubin \<1.5 ULN * ALT, AST \< 2.5 x ULN * Alkaline phosphatase \< 2.5 x ULN * No obvious contra indications to capecitabine or oxaliplatin or docetaxel * Patients must also be able to read, write and understand English. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who live in an area of no Vodafone or Orange mobile phone network - - Patients participating in other cancer treatment trials * Moderate or severe renal impairment \[creatinine clearance \<30ml/min (calculated according to Cockroft-Gault formula)\]

Locations (1)

Oxford Cancer Centre, Churchill Hospital

Oxford, United Kingdom

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Toxicities (frequency at each of grades 2, 3 and 4, over all cycles)

Time frame: At the end of each cycle and at occurrence

Secondary Outcomes

Number of inappropriate dose adaptations and self care advice messages generated ['inappropriate' defined by nurse overriding generated advice

Time frame: At occurrence

Frequency of patients receiving each piece of advice from the system, including recommendations on dose and on self-treating side effects.

Time frame: At occurrence

Obtain descriptive information on amount and duration of drug delivery (stage 2 only) Number of patients who, dose reduce stay at same dose dose increase Total dose delivery Chemotherapy duration

Time frame: Twice daily

Obtain feedback from staff on using the system Staff recommendations for changes or improvements to the system throughout the course of the study and Semi-structured interviews

Time frame: weekly for staff recommendations and one semi structured interview will take place

Test and refine mobile phone and server software systems Frequency of occurrence of technological faults (for example, problems caused by no phone reception)

Time frame: At occurrence

Patient Experience EvaluationPatient experience will be evaluated as detailed in Patient Experience Evaluation

Time frame: At least twice during their participation in the trial but not all patients may need to be interviewed

Evaluate safety outcomes Total number of grade 3/4 toxicities throughout the study period Degree of toxicity experienced Number of alerts, split by severity

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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