Pill-Taking habits under the microscope in advanced cancer patients
NCT ID NCT06435546
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at how closely 200 adults with advanced breast or prostate cancer follow their prescribed oral cancer treatments. Participants filled out questionnaires about their medication use and gave blood samples to check certain health markers. The goal was to understand adherence patterns and identify factors that might affect it, like overall health or other medical conditions.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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200 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jun 2024
- Finished
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Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult over 18 years old. * Patient with inoperable advanced breast cancer treated with oral endocrine therapy and/or targeted therapy and patient with inoperable advanced prostate cancer treated with oral hormonal therapy and/or targeted therapy. * Oral anticancer medications started for at least 3 months. * With a performance status ≤ 3. * Patient has understood, signed and dated the consent form. * Patient covered by the social security system. Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with early breast cancer or localized prostate cancer. * Patient with life expectancy \< 3 months. * Patient in progression * Undergoing intravenous or oral cytotoxic chemotherapy (capecitabine, cyclophosphamide, vinorelbine). * Patient who has not yet started oral anticancer therapies or who has started for less than 3 months. * Patient unable to read or speak French. * Patient already included in another therapeutic trial with an experimental molecule. * Persons deprived of their liberty or under guardianship (including curatorship).
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Institut de Cancerologie de Lorraine
Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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