Clinical trial NCT00613873: Use of Screening Colonoscopy Among Minority Women and Men
Official title: A Model Program for Increasing Use of Screening Colonoscopy Among Minority Women and Men
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Colorectal Screening
Keywords: colonoscopy
Lead sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: North General Hospital, New York
name: Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention
First posted: 2008-02-13
Enrollment: 611
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Potential research subjects will be identified by a member of the patient's treatment team, the protocol investigators or research team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center(MSKCC). The study will be offered to all eligible women who come for breast or cervical cancer screening at The Breast Examination Center of Harlem during the study period

Brief summary: Colorectal cancer is a cancer in the colon or rectum. Routine screening can find it at an early stage, when it has a much higher chance of cure. Screening can also help to find polyps. These are mushroom shaped growths that could turn into cancer. A polyp can be removed before it turns into cancer. Even though screening can save lives, not enough people in the country are having it. This is especially true in Harlem. Harlem has a higher rate of deaths from this cancer than other places in the U.S. because too many people do not get screened. By the time a person has symptoms, the cancer may be at a late stage, when it is much harder to cure.

We are doing this study to see if we can increase the number of people in Harlem who get screened. We plan to tell women about the screening when they have a mammogram or pap test. We will also ask them what they know and think about colorectal cancer. And, we will see if they get other members of their household to be screened.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age \> or equal to 50
* Availability by telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

* History of colorectal cancer screening (fecal occult blood testing annually for last 3 years; colonoscopy within the last 10 years)
* History of colorectal cancer
* Serious illness which precludes colonoscopy (severe heart disease; severe pulmonary disease; uncontrolled diabetes; uncontrolled hypertension; other medical contraindication)

Primary outcomes:
measure: To determine the feasibility of using a community screening mammography center to recruit minority women form a low income community to undergo colorectal cancer screening (CRCS).
timeFrame: conclusion of the study
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Identify individual level barriers (demographic, financial, and psychological) to CRCS among minority women who are already participating in screening for another cancer (breast or cervical)
timeFrame: conclusion of the study
measure: Determine the feasibility of promoting CRCS among spouses (and other members of the household) of minority women who have undergone screening colonoscopy.
timeFrame: conclusion of the study
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Breast Examination Center of Harlem
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
name: Moshe Shike, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Shike M, Schattner M, Genao A, Grant W, Burke M, Zauber A, Russo L, Cuyjet V. Expanding colorectal cancer screening among minority women. Cancer. 2011 Jan 1;117(1):70-6. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25566. Epub 2010 Oct 25.