An interventional study of referral to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. in Sarcoma, Bone Sarcoma and Soft Tissue Sarcoma, sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Recruiting at 8 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-15.
Sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of early access to mental healthcare during sarcoma treatment as well as to assess the association between early access to psychiatric care and depression, anxiety, postoperative outcomes, and patient satisfaction in patients undergoing surgery for musculoskeletal sarcoma.
1,607 studies on the registry are indexed under Sarcoma; 366 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 60 is above the median of 40 across 1,255 interventional studies indexed under Sarcoma.
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Of its 135 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 71 (53%) have results posted.
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Tissue diagnosis of primary bone or soft tissue sarcoma
o Note: high suspicion of sarcoma on history and imaging acceptable, if reviewed and approved by the PI
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Exclusion Criteria:
Participants will be randomized to the Early Psychiatric Referral group
Other: referral to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Participants will be randomized to the No Referral group
The primary intervention in this study is referral to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. This study will not dictate specific psychiatry interventions beyond providing the referral.
The number of participants who complete scheduled study visits
The study will evaluate the feasibility of conducting a randomized clinical trial studying the impact of early referral to psychiatry (versus no referral) on depression and anxiety symptoms in patients with musculoskeletal sarcoma by examining the rates of eligibility, acceptance, uptake rate, and adherence.
Time frame: 2 years
Plan to share: Yes — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center supports the international committee of medical journal editors (ICMJE) and the ethical obligation of responsible sharing of data from clinical trials. The protocol summary, a statistical summary, and informed consent form will be made available on clinicaltrials.gov when required as a condition of Federal awards, other agreements supporting the research and/or as otherwise required. Requests for deidentified individual participant data can be made beginning 12 months after publication and for up to 36 months post publication. Deidentified individual participant data reported in the manuscript will be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement and may only be used for approved proposals. Requests may be made to: crdatashare@mskcc.org.
Started Nov 2023 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Nov 2026, 36 months after the start.
Of 144 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Sarcoma, half reached primary completion within 61 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 34 and three quarters within 120. This study's planned 36 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 147 studies reached it within 59 months; a quarter within 34 and three quarters within 120.
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