RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06138067

Patient Navigation Program to Improve Clinical Trial Enrollment in Cancer Patients

A Pilot Study of Low Versus High Intensity Patient Navigation Program to Improve the Enrollment on Clinical Trials Among Cancer Patients


Sponsor

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Enrollment

90 participants

Start Date

Dec 1, 2025

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the utility of patient navigation by comparing high intensity patient navigation to low intensity navigation approaches to improving cancer trial enrollment of patients treated in academic and community cancer centers. Patient navigation is a strategy for increasing patients access to cancer care by helping the participant overcome barriers in the participants communities and within the health care system by providing a bridge between the patient and the health care system. The primary objective of this study is to determine if a high intensity patient navigation program will improve patients enrollment on clinical trial in comparison to a low intensity patient navigation. Participants who agree to participate and are eligible will be randomly assigned to either the high intensity or low intensity approach.


Eligibility

Min Age: 18 Years

Plain Language Summary

Simplified for easier understanding

This study is testing whether a patient navigation program — where a trained guide helps patients understand their options and navigate the healthcare system — can increase enrollment of cancer patients into clinical trials. It focuses on patients with prostate cancer or kidney cancer. **You may be eligible if...** - You are 18 or older - You have a current diagnosis of prostate cancer or kidney cancer - You are being treated at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center or Wellspan Health Center - There is an active clinical trial available that may be a match for you **You may NOT be eligible if...** - You are not being treated at one of the participating centers - There is no available trial that matches your cancer type and situation - You are under 18 years old Talk to your doctor to see if this trial is right for you.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALHigh intensity approach

PEM, cancer center support services material, and community resources and services available to cancer patients material. The PEM will be reviewed with the patient navigator before the participants appointment with the medical oncologist. If enrolled in a clinical trial, the patient navigator will call the participant biweekly, or more often if they are working to resolve any needs identified in the needs assessment) until the participant is successfully enrolled in the therapeutic clinical trial. The patient navigator will call the participant once weekly for 4 weeks, or less than 4 weeks in other cases including withdrawal from the clinical trial or this navigation study, disease progression, or death. The participant will receive a call 3 months after enrollment on the therapeutic clinical trial to complete the Exit Questionnaire

BEHAVIORALLow intensity approach

The participant will receive PEM, and community resources and services available to cancer patients material. The PEM will be reviewed with the patient navigator before the appointment with the medical oncologist. The patient navigator will call the participant 4 weeks after enrollment on the trial. The participant will receive a call 3 months after enrollment on the therapeutic clinical trial to complete the Exit Questionnaire


Locations(2)

Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Wellspan

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States

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