Decision Making and Psychological Outcomes in Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center186 enrolled

Overview

This study is being done to understand the decision-making process regarding management choice in low-risk papillary thyroid cancer.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

186

Conditions

Thyroid Cancer

Interventions

QuestionnairesBEHAVIORAL

Quality of Life Questionnaires

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Able to read, write, and communicate in English Patients who have been diagnosed with LR-PTC as described above * For Aim 1, adults with recently diagnosed LR-PTC who have not yet made a choice between surgery and AS * For Aim 2, adults with LR-PTC who made a decision about surgery or AS at least 3 months prior, but no more than 4 years prior to their routine follow-up visit at which they are being recruited for this study. * Active patients of MSK and participating institutions Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who have been diagnosed with a tumor greater than 2 cm * Patients with clinically suspicious lymphadenopathy in the neck * Patients with evidence of gross ETE after a biopsy of the papillary thyroid tumor

Locations (5)

Hartford Healthcare (Data Collection)

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Consent and Follow up)

Middletown, New Jersey, United States

MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER (Data collection only)

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

influencing decision making pre-visit

Patients will complete a pre-visit questionnaire and the patient-physician interaction during the visit will be recorded and subjected to qualitative analysis for extraction of variables representing the presence of elements of shared decision making and strength of physician influence.

Time frame: 3 years

influencing decision making post-visit

Patients will complete a post-visit questionnaire, and the patient-physician interaction during the visit will be recorded and subjected to qualitative analysis for extraction of variables representing the presence of elements of shared decision making and strength of physician influence.

Time frame: 3 years

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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