An observational study in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors, sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2012-08-02.
Sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Observational
The goal of this observational research study is to establish a registry of information regarding how different physicians treat and manage patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).
Objectives:
The Registry, which is Internet based, is intended to collect information about current practices in the management of GIST without making any specific change to the standard of care as decided by each patient's treating physician.
If you agree to participate in this study, your doctor will provide information to a data registry about your physical and clinical traits, the past and current medical care you have received to treat your GIST, and clinically-related, economically-related, and health-related quality of life information. About 200 doctors will provide information on their patients for the Registry. Your doctor will collect this information when you first join the Registry and at each regularly scheduled visit you make to your doctor's office. The information collection will continue for as long as you and your doctor feel it is appropriate. The information that is entered into the Registry will remain there indefinitely. It is hoped that this sharing of information will lead to a better understanding of how to best treat patients with GIST.
You and your doctor will decide what treatment you will receive. Because this Registry is only to observe actual medical practice, it does not require you to receive any particular treatment.
Only your doctor and people who will help your doctor collect the information for this Registry will know which information submitted to the Registry belongs to you. Data will be tracked in the Registry using only ID numbers and patient initials. The information submitted on the Registry data collection forms will not be associated with a specific patient's identity. Separately, you will be asked to provide your name, place of birth, and Social Security number. This information will not be entered into the Registry databases and will only be used if it is necessary to perform a search should you become lost to follow up. If you do not want to provide your Social Security number you may still be enrolled in the Registry.
This is an investigational study. About 100 patients from M. D. Anderson will be entered into the Registry. In all, about 1800 patients will be registered. The Registry will be active for at least 7 years.
333 studies on the registry are indexed under Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors; 61 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 1,800 is above the median of 116 across 68 observational studies indexed under Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.
Browse Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors studies →M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 2,999 studies on the registry; 581 are open to participants now.
Of its 599 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 402 (67%) have results posted.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Patients diagnosed with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST).
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients diagnosed with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)
Other: GIST Registry
Internet based data registry about how different physicians treat and manage patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
Current patterns of medical practice in management of patients with GIS
Data from observational GIST Registry analyzed to describe current patterns.
Time frame: 5 Years
This study is completed, as verified in Aug 2012. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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