Views of Cancer Patients Regarding Financial Conflicts of Interest
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00097682 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : November 25, 2004
Last Update Posted : July 2, 2017
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This study will explore what research patients understand about financial collaborations in the research setting and their concerns about these collaborations. Financial partnerships are crucial to advancing medical research; however, they are giving rise to increasing concerns about financial conflicts of interest and possible impacts on the integrity of research and patient safety. This study will examine patients' views about financial ties between drug companies and the doctors running research studies, as well as ties between the drug companies and the cancer centers where the studies are conducted.
Patients 18 years of age and older who are enrolled in cancer studies at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD; the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA; the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA; the Columbia Comprehensive University Herbert Irving Cancer Center in New York, NY; and the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Denver, CO, may be eligible for this study.
Participants are interviewed about the following:
- Patients' awareness and understanding about individual and institutional financial conflicts of interest, and how such conflicts, if they exist, are being managed
- The impact of a researcher's financial ties on the patient's decision to participate in that researcher's study
- The impact of the institution's financial ties on the patient's decision to participate in research at that institution
- Attitudes about policies and practices regarding conflicts of interest in the research setting
- Attitudes about disclosure of conflicts of interest in the research setting
- Patient symptoms and performance
- Patient's cancer trial
- Patient's cancer history
- Patient's trust
- Patient demographics (gender, age, race, religion, education, income, health insurance, employment).
Condition or disease |
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Neoplasms |
Study Type : | Observational |
Enrollment : | 300 participants |
Official Title: | Ethics Study to Understand the Views of Cancer Patients Regarding Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research |
Study Start Date : | November 18, 2004 |
Study Completion Date : | October 2, 2007 |

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
- INCLUSION CRITERIA:
Subjects will be included if they:
- Have consented to participate in a phase I, I/II, II, or III cancer study and are at any point in that study.
- Give informed consent.
- Understand written and spoken English.
- Are over 18 years of age.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
None.

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00097682
United States, Colorado | |
University of Colorado Cancer Center | |
Denver, Colorado, United States, 80220-3706 | |
United States, Connecticut | |
Yale University | |
New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510-8005 | |
United States, Massachusetts | |
Dana Farber Cancer Institute | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115 | |
United States, New York | |
Columbia University | |
New York, New York, United States, 10032-3784 | |
United States, Washington | |
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | |
Seattle, Washington, United States, 28104 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00097682 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
050038 05-CC-0038 |
First Posted: | November 25, 2004 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | July 2, 2017 |
Last Verified: | October 2, 2007 |
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