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Arm A: standard supervision and medical care during an adjuvant chemotherapy treatment in France

Arm B: telephonic monitoring during inter-treatment intervals + personalized medical care.

The standard medical supervision is defined as follows:

* Prescription of prophylactics medication (corticoid, antiemetic, cream, mouthwash, etc) at each cycle of chemotherapy.
* Nominative notebook containing details of chemotherapy administered and medical contacts.
* Consultations with psycho-oncologist or psychiatrist (if necessary).

The intervention further comprises: nurse phone calls the 3rd and the 8th day of the first three cycles of treatment, and personalized medical care according to toxicities reported.

Clinical and psychosocial phone calls

Philippe FOLLANA, Dr.

In health care, the phone has emerged as a clinical tool in its own right, especially for the development of psychological support to patients and that, in many pathologies. Its potential in the development of psycho-social support was quickly identified.

However, to our knowledge, no prospective, randomized studies have evaluated the impact of a telephone call to both the anxiety and the management of side effects of neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy.

The patient incomplete care by the hospital system and the general practitioner during chemotherapy, as well as the lack of information and poor preparation and / or management of side effects, are a source of distress and lead to a decrease quality of life for the patient and his family.

We propose to determine on a population of 280 patients, the impact of two phone calls during 3 first inter-treatment intervals on the overall measure of mood states of the patient and his principal caregiver (anxiety, depression, confusion, angry, fatigue, force and interpersonal relation). We will also study the gain in quality of life, on anxiety level, frequency and severity of toxicities, as well as emotional comfort of the procedure.

Cancer is widely associated with the concept of psychological distress in a population of patients subject to numerous stressful events. Between 10 to 50% of patients with cancer and their families suffer from clinically significant psychological disorders.

The existence of a broad continuum of manifestations of distress makes it difficult for clinical evaluation. Underestimated and misjudged, it is not always taken into account appropriately. However, these problems have a direct impact not only on the quality of life of patients but also on their ability to share decisions , adhere to treatment, and therefore to get the best care available for the treatment of their cancer.

Interactions between the presence of psychopathological disorders, quality of life and treatment toxicities will be the focus of this study assessing the impact of telephonic monitoring (targeting clinical, psychological and social objectives) in patients with current chemotherapy.

There are communication difficulties on the distress between the patient and the doctor, in part due to the gap between the perceptions of the patient and the caregiver. Indeed, many studies have highlighted the important differences existing between subjective psychosocial needs of the patient and the physician's ability to detect them. In particular, the study of Fallowfield on nearly 2300 medical consultations shows that only 29% of patients whose threshold of distress is clinically significant are identified by their doctors. Similarly, the synthesis carried out in 2005 by Thorne et al. reported the impact of failures of communication between clinicians and patients on the psychosocial experience of illness and treatment, symptom management, decision making and quality of life.

Justification and research hypothesis

In health care, the phone has emerged as a clinical tool in its own right, especially for the development of psychological support to patients and that, in many pathologies. Its potential in the development of psycho-social support was quickly identified.

However, to our knowledge, no prospective, randomized studies have evaluated the impact of a telephone call to both the anxiety and the management of side effects of neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy.

The patient incomplete care by the hospital system and the general practitioner during chemotherapy, as well as the lack of information and poor preparation and / or management of side effects, are a source of distress and lead to a decrease quality of life for the patient and his family.

We propose to determine on a population of 280 patients, the impact of two phone calls during the first 3 inter-treatment intervals, the overall measure of mood states (anxiety, depression , confusion , anger , fatigue , vigor and interpersonal ) of the patient and his entourage . We also study the gain in quality of life, anxiety level, frequency and severity of toxicities, as well as emotional comfort of the procedure.

We propose to determine on a population of 280 patients, the impact of two phone calls during the 3 first inter-treatment intervals on the overall measure of mood states of the patient and his principal caregiver (anxiety, depression, confusion, angry, fatigue, force and interpersonal relation). We will also study the gain in quality of life, on anxiety level, frequency and severity of toxicities, as well as emotional comfort of the procedure.

Impact of a Telephonic Monitoring During Inter-treatment Intervals on Emotional State, Quality of Life and Toxicities, on Neo Adjuvant or Adjuvant Chemotherapy-treated Patients

Impact of a Telephonic Monitoring During Neo Adjuvant or Adjuvant Chemotherapy

To compare 2 types of supervision in terms of cost of the procedure (cost of consultations with psychologists, psychiatrists, cost of telephone calls)

comparison of the 2 types of monitoring in terms of overall measure of emotional state (anxiety, depression, confusion, angry, fatigue, force and interpersonal relation) of patients, with Profile of Mood States (POMS-f) questionnaire.

To compare 2 types of supervision in terms of:

The difference between the overall scores on the POMS-f before the start of treatment, at each treatment and after 3 courses of treatment

To compare 2 types of supervision in terms of proportion of patients with toxicity during treatment, and the maximum grade observed per patient

To compare 2 types of supervision in terms of:

The quality of life of the patient by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Qulity of life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30), before the start of treatment, during the 2nd cycle of chemotherapy and after three courses of treatment

To compare 2 types of supervision in terms of:

The level of anxiety assessed by the number of visits to psychologists, psychiatrists, the sub-score "Anxiety" obtained in the Hospital Anxiety and Depression State (HADS) questionnaire, the anxiolytics and antidepressants intakes

To compare 2 types of supervision in terms of:

- The overall scores obtained by the caregiver on the POMS-f before, during and after 3 courses of treatment

To compare 2 types of supervision in terms of overall satisfaction scores obtained by the patient after 3 courses of treatment

To compare 2 types of supervision in terms of:

- The relationship between the presence of psychosocial frailty criteria and the level of anxiety for patients in group B (number of visits to psychologists, psychiatrists; anxiolytics and antidepressants intake; HADS anxiety scores)

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