Assessing Frailty and Its Impacts on Patients Facing Major GI Surgery
ConditionBowel Cancer
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorDoncaster And Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About this trial
The study team will look at 3 new tests that will make it easier to measure frailty in patients awaiting surgery for cancer and compare them against standard clinical measures of frailty in a pilot study. The expected outcome is that evidence will be collated in order to apply for a major grant to look at improving the care of frail patients with cancer in the future.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Male or female.
Aged 70 years and over.
Patients with a diagnosis of primary operable colorectal cancer where treatment includes a planned curative surgical procedure.
About to undergo elective surgery for cancer.
Disqualifiers
Patients with unresectable cancer.
Patients presenting as an emergency.
Patients who are having chemotherapy or radiotherapy before their surgery.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Frailty measure
Treatment groups
No treatment groups listed
Sponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov