Cancer surveillance has a significant cost and generate anxiety for the patient. It is important to avoid exams that will not modify health support or whose results wont allow to decide.
Cancer surveillance has a significant cost and generate anxiety for the patient. It is important to avoid exams that will not modify health support or whose results wont allow to decide. Our study will help rationalise surveillance of soft tissue sarcoma and standardize medical practices.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
11
surveillance by radiography of chest every 3 months the first 2 years then every 6 month the third, forth and fifth years
surveillance by CT of chest every 3 months the first 2 years then every 6 month the third, forth and fifth years
Centre Georges François Leclerc
Dijon, France
Oscar Lambret Center
Lille, France
Léon BERARD Center
Lyon, France
proportion of patients having an isolated and operable pulmonary relapse
% of patients having resectable or resected lung metastasis after 2 years of surveillance
Time frame: 2 years
evaluate quality of life
questionnaire STAI
Time frame: every 3 months for 2 years then every 6 months for the 3rd year
evaluate free disease survival
Time between date of inclusion and date of clinical or radiological progression
Time frame: 5 years
evaluate overall survival
time between date of inclusion and date of death (whatever the cause is)
Time frame: 5 years
evaluate irradiation received
measure of PDL (product dose length) for chest CT measure of PDS (product dose surface) for chest radiograph
Time frame: 2 years
estimate false positive rate
patients operated for non metastatic lesions patients monitored for non metastatic nodules
Time frame: 2 years
evaluate global health
using scale of pain EVA
Time frame: every 3 months for 2 years then every 6 months for the 3rd year
medico economic evaluation
sum of direct and indirect costs
Time frame: 5 years
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