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CompletedNCT04382495Updated Aug 28, 2024

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cancer Care

An observational study in Cancer, sponsored by El Zaitoun Specialized Hospital. Completed at 1 site in Egypt. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-08-28.

Sponsored by El Zaitoun Specialized Hospital · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Other
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
300
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The situation of COVID-19 pandemic creates many challenges for cancer patients and caregivers. Some modifications in cancer management have been evolved from cancer societies and organizations to support oncology professionals as much as possible to deliver optimal care to their cancer patients in such exceptional circumstances, and to protect patients from infection with COVID-19 as much as possible.

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In oncology practice during this pandemic, many cancer patients still feeling uncertainty about their cancer management and treatment outcome . The study is aiming to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care from patients' and survivors' perspective.

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Conditions studied

  • Cancer

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Keywords

  • Cancer Care
  • COVID-19
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In context

COVID-19

7,641 studies on the registry are indexed under COVID-19; 487 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 300 is above the median of 261 across 3,136 observational studies indexed under COVID-19.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with El Zaitoun Specialized Hospital as lead sponsor.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

the study survey will be distributed through social media to cancer patients and survivors in Egypt. We plan to enroll as many participants as possible without limitation of the number although we hope to achieve at least 400 participants.

Inclusion criteria

  • cancer patients or survivors in Egypt.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • No exclusion criteria
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Study design

Observational model
Other
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
300 participants (actual)
Patient registry
No

Interventions

  • Othersurvey

    online survey

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. patients' and survivors' perspective of their cancer care during COVID-19 pandemic

    measured by online survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care

    Time frame: one month

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Study locations

1 site
  • EgyBrit Medical Centre
    Cairo, 00202, Egypt
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — email

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 28, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04382495
Lead sponsor
El Zaitoun Specialized Hospital
Collaborators
Ain Shams University
Responsible party
Aalaa Abdou (Principle Investigator, El Zaitoun Specialized Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
May 11, 2020
Start date
Jun 15, 2020
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2021
Completion
Jan 30, 2022
Last update
Aug 28, 2024

Study contacts

Ahmed Abdelaziz, MD
study director · Ain Shams University

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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