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Brief Title: NutriCare Plus a Medically Tailored Meal Intervention Among Patients With Lung Cancer
Official Title: NutriCare Intervention on Optimizing Nutritional Status, Reducing Treatment-Related Toxicities, and Improving Quality of Life Among Vulnerable Patients With Lung Cancer
Study ID: NCT04986670
Brief Summary: The NutriCare study aims to develop, implement, and evaluate the efficacy of an innovative intervention strategy (medically tailored meals plus nutrition counseling) to integrate nutrition into the standard of care for oncology to improve outcomes of vulnerable patients with lung cancer. The NutriCare study evaluates the efficacy of the intervention on optimizing nutritional status, reducing treatment-related toxicities, and improving the quality of life of patients with lung cancer who are economically disadvantaged, uninsured, racial and ethnic minorities, elderly, and/or rural residents from four major medical centers in diverse regions of the United States (U.S.). There will be two cohorts for NutriCare with cohort 1 recruiting 150 patients completing an 8-month intervention and cohort 2 recruiting 120 patients completing a 6-month intervention.
Detailed Description:
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The James Cancer Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Name: FangFang Zhang, MD, PhD
Affiliation: Tufts University
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Name: Colleen Spees, PhD, MEd, RD, LD, FAND
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR