Neoplasms

Urinary Tract, Sexual Organs, and Pregnancy Conditions

All Conditions

Behaviors and Mental Disorders

Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

Stress, Psychological

Uterine Neoplasms

Genital Neoplasms, Female

Urogenital Neoplasms

Uterine Cervical Diseases

Uterine Diseases

Genital Diseases, Female

Genital Diseases

Urogenital Diseases

Female Urogenital Diseases

Pregnancy Complications

Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications

Behavioral Symptoms

Quality of Life

520 cervical cancer patients will complete questionnaires, online food diary and wear a fitbit after diagnosis, after 6 months, and after 1, 2, 5 and 10 years. In addition, a subsample (n=116) will donate blood samples and a scalp hair sample after diagnosis and 6, 12 and 24 months. We expect 312 partners of cervical cancer patients to included in the study and complete questionnaires after diagnosis, after 6 months, and after 1, 2, 5 and 10 years

Nicole Ezendam, PhD

Belle de Rooij, PhD

R Yigit

Peggy Vos van Steenwijk

Petra Zusterzeel

Eleonora van Dorst, Dr.

Nicole Ezendam

Rationale: A growing number of cervical cancer patients live years beyond their cancer diagnosis and ultimately survive their disease. Cervical cancer patients report higher levels of psychological distress compared to other (gynecological) cancer types, resulting in physical and psychosocial limitations. The mechanisms explaining why some patients do, and others do not experience persistent psychological distress after cervical cancer remain unclear.

Objective: Gain insight into the mechanisms explaining psychological distress (i.e. anxiety, depression, cancer worry, perceived stress) in a prospective population-based sample of cervical cancer patients. Factors to be studied include characteristics of the individual (demographical and clinical, including comorbidities), characteristics of the environment ((sexual) relationships), biological function (cortisol, melatonin and sex hormone production assessed in scalp hair, inflammation and telomere length assessed in blood, overall quality of life (EORTC QLQ-C30), symptoms (EORTC QLQ-CX24), functional status (physical activity and sleep measured using the Actigraph activity tracker, and food intake measured using the online 'Eetmeter'), and general health perceptions (B-IPQ). The second aim is to assess the impact of cervical cancer on partners' distress (cancer worry, illness perceptions, relationship quality, dyadic coping).

Study design: Prospective population-based study in which cervical cancer patients and their partners are included shortly after diagnosis and followed until 10 years after diagnosis. Patients from treatment centres in the Netherlands and their partners will be asked to complete questionnaires after diagnosis, after 6 months, and after 1, 2, 5 and 10 year. Clinical data like disease stage, initial treatment and mortality will be extracted from the Netherlands Cancer Registry. In a subsample of patients, additionally objective lifestyle (actigraph, biosensor) and biological (blood, hair) measures are assessed at diagnosis and after 6, 12 and 24 months. .

Study population: Newly diagnosed stage 1-3 cervical cancer patients (N=520) and their partners (N=312, expected) from any treatment centre in the Netherlands will be asked to fill out questionnaires. In a subsample of patients (N=116) additionally lifestyle and biological measures are assessed at all time-points.

Main study parameters/endpoints: psychological distress (anxiety, depression, perceived stress, cancer worry)

Nature and extent of the burden and risks associated with participation, benefit and group relatedness: Patients and partners are asked to complete a questionnaire at 6 points in time: after diagnosis, after 6 months, and after 1, 2, 5 and 10 year. Patients will additionally be asked to complete an online food diary for 3 days. A subsample of patients will be asked to donate blood samples (2X10 ml, 10 minutes) to assess inflammation markers and telomere length, to donate a scalp hair sample (10 mg) to assess hormone production after diagnosis and after 6, 12 and 24 months, and to wear an Actigraph activity tracker to assess physical activity and sleep and a Philips Biosensor to assess heart rate variability as a marker of vagal nerve function at 6, 12 and 24 months.

Blood: pro-and anti-inflammatory cytokines, telomere length Scalp hair: cortisol, melatonin

Distress In CErvical Cancer Patients and Partners

Mechanisms Explaining Psychological Distress In CErvical Cancer Patients and Partners (DICE): a Population-based Prospective Study

Questionnaire data will be dissiminated 1 year after conclusion of the study. Data from the PROFILES registry are freely available for non-commercial scientific research, subject to study question, privacy and confidentiality restrictions, and registration (www.profileregistry.nl).

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (1-21, higher scores indicate more anxiety or depression)

Impact of Cancer version 2 (Worry Scale) (0-5, higher scores indicate more worry)

Perceived Stress Scale (0-40, higher scores indicate more perceived stress)

EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQC30) (0-100, higher scores indicate better quality of life or more symptoms)

EORTC Cervical Cancer Module (CX24) (0-100, higher scores indicate better quality of life or more symptoms)

EORTC Sexual Health Questionnaire (SHQ22) (0-100, higher scores indicate better quality of life or more symptoms)

Tilburg University

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

Comprehensive Cancer Centre The Netherlands

Principal Investigator

Digestive System Diseases

Rare Diseases

Anxiety Disorders

Anus Neoplasms

Rectal Neoplasms

Colorectal Neoplasms

Intestinal Neoplasms

Gastrointestinal Neoplasms

Digestive System Neoplasms

Gastrointestinal Diseases

Intestinal Diseases

Anus Diseases

Rectal Diseases

Anal Cancer

Non-metastatic squamous anus cancer with the presence of an HPV infection authenticated on the biopsy

to assess the quality of sexual life of patients treated for anal cancer treated with radiotherapy, during their treatment, then 3 months after treatment and, finally, 2 years after cancer diagnosis.

Quality of life questionnaire

Jean-Pierre BLEUSE, MD

Claire LEMANSKI, MD

The purpose of this this study, to evaluate the quality of sexual life of patients treated for anal cancer treated by radiotherapy, during their treatment, then 3 months after treatment and, finally, 2 years after treatment. cancer diagnosis.

Sexual health is defined by WHO in 2011 as a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality. It is an integral part of health, well-being and quality of life and is recognized as a right of everyone.Alteration of sexuality after cancer impacts all phases of the sexual response. It is multifactorial: psychological (ie, anxiety linked to the disease, fear of death, or impairment of body image) and physiological (ie, alteration of the sexual reaction which may be linked, in part, to direct sequelae generated by irradiation of the genitals).

Anal cancer remains fairly rare, affecting around 2,200 people each year in France, with a predominance of women (60 to 70% of patients), However, its incidence has been growing strongly for 30 years, in Europe and the United States where it is has increased by 70% over the last 10 years alone, in both men and women, with an increasingly younger population.

It is linked, in more than 90% of cases, to a carcinogenic virus, the Human PapillomaVirus (HPV), a late consequence of an infection, most often asymptomatic, transmitted by the sexual route.

The question of sexuality after cancer remains, in fact, very little addressed by doctors who express a lack of training. Patients, for their part, often do not dare to raise the issue with caregivers, out of modesty, or thinking that the teams do not have the time. Discussions with patients therefore generally always remain focused on oncological management, from the initial consultation to the follow-up consultations. The hope of recovery awaited on each of the assessments and the fear of relapse often obscure more global and equally essential questions: whether it is about the quality of life, the after-effects, or even more, the quality. of sex life. For these reasons, this study will collect the information provided to patients on the impact of this treatment on their sexual health, whether it is medical information recorded in the file, or information perceived and retained by patients.

Assessment of Patients' Quality of Sexual Life After Anal Cancer Treatment

Sexual quality of life score obtained on the European EORTC SHQ-C22 questionnaire

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization	Link
Distress In CErvical Cancer Patients and Partners	NCT04475354	Cervical Cancer Psychologic Str... Psychological D... Survivorship Quality of Life		18 Years -	Comprehensive Cancer Centre The Netherlands
Assessment of Patients' Quality of Sexual Life After Anal Cancer Treatment	NCT05109468	Anal Cancer Sexuality Psychologic Str... HPV Anxiety	Quality of life...	18 Years -	Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle

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