Neoplasms

Urinary Tract, Sexual Organs, and Pregnancy Conditions

All Conditions

Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Respiratory Tract (Lung and Bronchial) Diseases

Gland and Hormone Related Diseases

Rare Diseases

Behaviors and Mental Disorders

Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

Breast Neoplasms

Prostatic Neoplasms

Lung Neoplasms

Ovarian Neoplasms

Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial

Urinary Bladder Neoplasms

Vaginal Neoplasms

Urogenital Neoplasms

Genital Diseases

Urogenital Diseases

Genital Diseases, Female

Female Urogenital Diseases

Pregnancy Complications

Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications

Genital Neoplasms, Female

Vaginal Diseases

Ovarian Cancer

Quality of Life

Ovarian Epithelial Cancer

Vaginal Cancer

If you are in group A, the investigators will ask you to fill out a brief paper questionnaire periodically to tell us how you are feeling, and how satisfied you are with your care.

If you are in group B, the investigators will provide you with access to the STAR website using a computer in the waiting area, into which you can report your symptoms every time you come to Sloan-Kettering for an appointment or chemotherapy. The investigators may also provide you with a website address so that you can access STAR from home (or any other location) to report your symptoms at any time.

The investigators will ask you to fill out a brief paper questionnaire periodically to tell us how you are feeling, and how satisfied you are with your care.

Questioners

You can report your symptoms every time you come to Sloan-Kettering for an appointment or chemotherapy.

STAR website

Ethan Basch, MD

Cancer patients may develop side effects during treatment, such as nausea, pain, fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, or shortness of breath. These symptoms may be due to the cancer itself, or due to treatments like chemotherapy drugs or radiation therapy. Doctors and nurses often ask patients about their symptoms, because an important part of cancer treatment is to make patients feel as well as possible. If patients do not feel well, the investigators may need to change the way the investigators are treating you or prescribe therapies that will decrease your symptoms. The best way to find out how you are feeling is to ask you directly.

However, during your time between appointments the investigators may not be able to ask you how you are feeling on a regular basis. In addition, even at an appointment, there may be symptoms that the investigators do not have a chance to discuss.

The investigators are interested in developing new ways to ask patients about how they are feeling, using the Internet. A special new website called STAR ("Symptom Tracking and Reporting for Patients") has been developed to help patients record this information, so that their doctors and nurses can review it during clinic appointments. This study is designed to help us see if STAR is a helpful way for us to keep track of information about patients' symptoms and quality of life.

This pilot study will assess patient use of STAR (Symptom Tracking and Reporting for Patients), an online system designed for cancer patients to self-record toxicity-related symptoms based on NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events v3.0, performance status by ECOG criteria, global quality of life by the EuroQOL 5-D assessment tool, emergency room visits, and survival. Secondary outcomes will include patient assessment of the usefulness of STAR, clinician perceptions of the potential value of STAR in routine clinical practice, and an evaluation of whether STAR improves the patient experience of care as assessed by satisfaction measures.

Internet-based System for Cancer Patients to Self-report Toxicity

Pilot Study of STAR, an Internet-based System for Cancer Patients to Self-report Toxicity Symptoms, Performance Status, and Quality of Life

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization	Link
Internet-based System for Cancer Patients to Self-report Toxicity	NCT00578006	Cervical Cancer Lung Cancer Prostate Cancer Vaginal Cancer Ovarian Cancer Breast Cancer Bladder Cancer	Questioners STAR website	18 Years -	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Internet-based System for Cancer Patients to Self-report Toxicity	NCT00578006	Cervical Cancer Lung Cancer Prostate Cancer Vaginal Cancer Ovarian Cancer Breast Cancer Bladder Cancer	Questioners STAR website	18 Years -	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for toxicity related symptoms