Assessing Benefits and Harms of Cannabis Use in Patients Treated With Immunotherapy for Cancer: a Prospective Cohort Study
State University of New York at Buffalo
Summary
The purpose of this research is to assess how patients with cancer being treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICI) manage symptoms related to cancer and/or its treatment. Patients use a variety of ways to manage symptoms including traditional and alternative treatments including cannabis, acupuncture, etc. This research will have an important impact on our knowledge of cancer symptom management, and ultimately improve patient care and safety. Participants will complete online surveys and 7 days of ecological momentary assessments at 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 and 12 month to compare the cannabis users and non cannabis users symptoms.
Description
Immunotherapy:Prospective Assessment of Cannabis Treatment in Cancer (IMPACT-C) is an observational study to assess the side effect of cancer patients going through immunotherapy treatments. The investigators will use a variety of methods to recruit, including generating reports of potentially eligible patients from institutional registries, reviewing Electronic Medical Records (EMR), approaching patients during their regular outpatient visits, taking referrals from oncology teams, and placing study advertisements at strategic locations of the oncology clinics and Facebook sites. If a potentia…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 21+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * adult age of 21 years or older * cancer diagnosis and planning or using immunotherapy treatment, * pain and spend less than 50% in bed or chair * fluent in english language Exclusion Criteria: * use synthetic cannabis or only use Cannabidiol (CBD) * non users but used in the past 3 months * prior immunotherapy, Patients receiving immunosuppressants or organ transplant recipients. * Patients within 6 months of Hospice care. * Pain that limits movement to more than 50% of their day in bed or chair
Locations (2)
- Oregon Health and Science UniversityPortland, Oregon
- Thomas Jefferson UniversityPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania