The incidence of cancer among older adults is increasing as a result of longer life expectancy. Therapeutic advances have led oncologists to propose new available treatments for these patients, particularly oral therapies, whether targeted therapies or hormone therapies. However, these patients are more vulnerable and have an increased risk of treatment-related toxicity or inefficacy. Indeed, they more frequently suffer from comorbidities (renal, cardiac, hepatic insufficiency, etc.) and present risk factors (polypharmacy, cognitive disorders, etc.) known to reduce the effectiveness or increase the toxicity of oral therapies due to variations in plasma drug concentrations. For several years, various international recommendations (ASCO, ESMO, etc.) have suggested that specialized geriatatric oncology care is indicated for these patients. Similarly, some studies have shown that pharmacist involvement may have an impact by reducing drug-drug interaction issues or non-adherence. Finally, the introduction of oral therapies in oncology has raised pharmacological challenges: regular pharmacokinetic monitoring could allow dose adjustments in cases of disease progression in undertreated patients or toxicity in overexposed patients. Our hypothesis is that implementing an integrative care pathway in this population could demonstrate a benefit by improving quality of care, reducing toxicity, optimizing efficacy, and maintaining an acceptable cost. This approach could help prevent early treatment discontinuation due to disease progression related to insufficient drug concentrations, as well as certain toxicities related to overdosing (e.g., drug-drug interactions), leading to improved quality of life and a reduction in rehospitalization rates.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
794
Pharm-Onco-Geriatric (POG) pathway which allows triple oncogeriatric, pharmaceutical and pharmacological follow-up. The main interventions according to the areas will be the following: Pharmacological (pharmacokinetic assays with a 5mL blood sampling (samples to be collected at trough (pre-dose), dosage adjustment in the event of underexposure or overexposure), Pharmaceutical (understanding of oral anticancer therapy, co-medications, tolerance assessment, adherence assessment) and Geriatric (oncogeriatric Follow-up, monitoring of the appearance of frailty criteria during treatment by the G-CODE tool, collection of hospitalizations data, admission in emergency rooms, incidents, modification of the living address).
Gustave Roussy
Villejuif, France
To assess the impact of reinforced multi-professional care pathway in geriatric oncology on the occurrence of grade ≥3 non-hematologic adverse event or grade ≥4 hematologic adverse event (according to NCI-CTCAE Version 6.0)
Time frame: over a maximum of 24 months after randomization
Number of adverse events (NCI-CTCAE Version 6.0)
To evaluate the impact of the implementation of reinforced and multi-professional care pathway (oncologist, geriatrician, pharmacist, pharmacologist) in geriatric oncology.
Time frame: over 24 months, after randomization
Overall Survival
To evaluate the impact of the implementation of reinforced and multi-professional care pathway (oncologist, geriatrician, pharmacist, pharmacologist) in geriatric oncology.
Time frame: over 24 months, after randomization
Progression-Free Survival
To evaluate the impact of the implementation of reinforced and multi-professional care pathway (oncologist, geriatrician, pharmacist, pharmacologist) in geriatric oncology.
Time frame: over 24 months, after randomization
Quality of life questionnaires
To evaluate the impact of the implementation of reinforced and multi-professional care pathway (oncologist, geriatrician, pharmacist, pharmacologist) in geriatric oncology.
Time frame: over 24 months, after randomization
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