Assessment of the Current State of Survivor-Focused Cancer Care in the Adolescent and Young Adult population in rural Southwestern Indiana
The goal of this proposal is to create an opportunity and a platform for rural AYA survivors to inform the medical community which barriers impact their access to healthcare.THIS STUDY IS ENROLLING BY INVITATION ONLY - Potential subjects will be recruited from the Family Medicine Clinic in Jasper, Indiana, the Good Samaritan Clinic in Vincennes, Indiana, Ascension St Vincent Hospital in Evansville, and a list of AYA cancer survivors obtained from the Regenstrief Institute EMR files. Study personnel will work with the clinicians in all these facilities to obtain the names of patients who have had a diagnosis of cancer and are off treatment. The study team will either approach the families at clinic or call if they have agreed to be contacted for research. In addition, the research study team will make calls from the list obtained by Regenstrief for recruitment. Consistent with most oncology trials, patients are not actively “recruited,” but are screened by their physician for appropriate clinical trial(s) at the time of their routine clinic visit. Occasionally, a patient may be a self-referral or physician referral, but are still screened for appropriate clinical trials at the time of their routine clinic visit. PI and staff may send copies of relevant consent forms to these patients to look over prior to actually consenting or enrolling them. This may take place at the patient's visit at which the consent is presented or the patient's next visit to the outpatient hematology/oncology clinic. Interested in participating? For more information about this research study or other cancer-related clinical trials at Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center (IUSCCC), please contact theIU Clinical Trials Office at Email: iutrials@iu.edu Phone: (317) 278-5632