Older Patients With Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer or Colon Cancer

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2011-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Learning about changes over time in older patients' ability to function after receiving chemotherapy for breast or colon cancer may help doctors learn about the long-term effects of treatment and plan the best treatment.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying older patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer or colon cancer.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically confirmed breast or colon cancer

• Newly diagnosed disease

• Any stage disease

• Undergoing treatment at the Ireland Cancer Center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center Site

• Scheduled to start a new chemotherapy regimen (objective II only)

• Not concurrently enrolled in a GEM trial (objectives II, III, and IV)

• Hormone receptor status not specified

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Understands English

• Menopausal status not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Diseases Characteristics