Table 2 Additional cancer items collected by Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry from registrants of cancer trials
From: Consumer input into research: the Australian Cancer Trials website
Data item | Options |
|---|---|
Cancer stage | Early |
| Â | Locally recurrent or locally advanced |
| Â | Metastatic/Widespread |
| Â | Not applicable |
Treatment type (s) | Treatment: Hormones |
| Â | Treatment: Chemotherapy |
| Â | Treatment: Targeted therapies and biological therapies |
| Â | Treatment: Radiotherapy |
| Â | Treatment: Surgery |
| Â | Treatment: Other |
| Â | Antiemetics |
| Â | Complementary |
| Â | Palliative care |
| Â | Prevention/Screening |
| Â | Psychosocial (counselling/training/communication/education) |
| Â | Lifestyle |
| Â | Rehabilitation |
State (s) of recruitment | The Australian state (s) where the participants are being recruited |
Anticipated or actual recruitment end date | The anticipated or actual date the trial will stop recruiting patients |
Side effects | The known and possible side effect (s) for each trial arm from most to least common |
Cost to participants | Similar cost as usual care |
| Â | Less cost than usual care |
| Â | More cost than usual care |
Time commitments | Similar time commitment as usual care |
| Â | Less time commitment than usual care |
| Â | More time commitment than usual care |
Lay summary written by a medical writer | Format of summary: |
|  |    • An initial sentence summarizing the trial purpose |
|  |    • A section describing the patient eligibility under the heading "Who is it for?" |
|  |    • A section entitled "Trial details" which describes the trial design, intervention(s) and comparator(s) and outcome measures of the trial |