For more information, please visit our website: https://cecs.unc.edu The purpose of this research study is to learn more about the diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship experiences of adults with endometrial cancer. Initial enrollment goals are for 1,800 adults living in North Carolina at the time of their recent first diagnosis of endometrial cancer. This project will provide important data for integrating tumor biology, access to care, and other factors to identify contributors, and potential areas for intervention to address endometrial cancer disparities. Study staff will pursue annual follow-ups with participants, requesting updates to treatment status and quality of life measures for approximately 5yrs.
The purpose of this study is to create a biobank by collecting and storing specimens, such as blood and tissue, along with medical information such as demographics and treatment, from a large group of patients with pancreatic tumors. This biobank can then be used by future studies focused on pancreatic tumors.
Using online surveys to measure level of patient symptoms and seeing how regularly monitoring that impacts a patient's healthcare experience.
In Aim 1, we will use existing research and expert review to develop new text and pictorial LCC warnings and test the new warnings using online experiments to identify warnings that adult LCC users perceive as most effective. The proposed study will fill critical gaps regarding which characteristics make LCC warning labels most effective and provide needed evidence on how LCC warnings influence LCC behavioral intentions. Our overarching goal is to develop effective LCC warnings that reduce cancer and other health risks.
The purpose of this research study is to understand how the monitoring of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) could help improve surgical care for patients undergoing chest surgeries. PROs are symptoms directly reported by patients through the completion of a survey.
The SISTER study is comparing different kinds of support for Black patients during endometrial cancer treatment. SISTER is a "randomized controlled trial", or RCT. This means that if you decide to volunteer, a computer will assign you to a group. There are three groups in the study, and you will get support no matter what group you are in. You will also complete surveys and give us permission to collect information from your medical record that is related to the study.
The purpose of this study is to help us better understand how patients with KS will respond to treatment with chemotherapy. We know from previous research studies that even though chemotherapy cannot cure KS, it can help a lot to improve symptoms caused by KS and cause KS lesions to become less or even go away for long periods of time.
The purpose of this study is to further adapt an evidence-based, social support intervention, enCompass for rural cancer caregivers by identifying the barriers and facilitators from the perspectives of clinical staff and healthcare administrators. Results of this study will inform the development of a clinical trial.
The Improving Provider Announcement Communication Training (IMPACT) national primary care team survey aims to investigate HPV vaccine communication among a large sample of primary care team members, including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses and medical assistants to inform future provider communication interventions.
The purpose of this study is to collect evidence for or against the addition of olanzapine to standard nausea/vomiting prophylaxis in children receiving cyclophosphamide-based Bone Marrow Transplant conditioning. Its findings will be generalizable to children receiving other types of chemotherapy that have the potential to increase nausea/vomiting.