Physician-Initiated Stop-Smoking Program for Patients Receiving Treatment for Early-Stage Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Physician-initiated smoking cessation strategies may be effective in getting early-stage cancer patients to quit smoking.

PURPOSE: Randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of a physician-initiated stop-smoking program with the usual care for patients receiving treatment for early-stage cancer.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• One of the following diagnoses:

• Stage I or II bladder, colorectal, head and neck, lung, or other cancer

• Stage I-III testicular cancer

• Stage I-IV breast cancer, prostate cancer, or lymphoma

• Must have smoked 1 or more cigarettes within the past month or define self as a smoker

• Hormone receptor status:

• Not specified

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

• 19 and over

Sex:

• Not specified

Menopausal status:

• Not specified

Performance status:

• ECOG 0-1

Life expectancy:

• Not specified

Hematopoietic:

• Not specified

Hepatic:

• Not specified

Renal:

• Not specified

Cardiovascular:

• No history of recent heart attack

Other:

• Not pregnant

• No other imminent medical needs requiring referral to a more intensive smoking cessation regimen

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

• Not specified

Chemotherapy:

• Not specified

Endocrine therapy:

• Not specified

Radiotherapy:

• Not specified

Surgery:

• Not specified

Other:

• No prior participation in the pilot phase study