Study protocol: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Comprehensive Breast Cancer Treatment Patient Decision Tool (iCanDecide).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients newly diagnosed with breast cancer face a series of complex decisions regarding locoregional and systemic treatment. There is a need to improve the quality of locoregional and systemic decisions for breast cancer patients, and to help patients understand the role of evaluative tests in this decision process. We are now conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an online decision tool-called iCanDecide, which we expect will help patients with these difficult decisions. Furthermore, the results of this RCT will be highly relevant to future breast cancer patients making these decisions and to their clinicians.

Methods

This is a two-arm randomized controlled trial with the target of 222 participants per arm. Participants are recruited from 25 surgical

SUBMITTER: Hawley ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5685533 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature