New program aims to help cancer patients stick with immunotherapy
NCT ID NCT07646847
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jul 31, 2026 · Updated 3 times
Summary
This study tests a navigation program for cancer patients starting immunotherapy. The program helps with essential needs like food, transportation, and housing, and tracks side effects. Researchers want to see if this support helps patients continue their treatment and improves their quality of life. The trial includes 200 adults with kidney, bladder, breast, or lung cancer.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Immunotherapy CARE Program (navigation program)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this program could help cancer patients stay on immunotherapy longer and improve their quality of life by managing side effects and social needs.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study focused on support services, not a new drug. The program may not significantly affect treatment continuation or quality of life.
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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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About 200 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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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: * Documentation of Disease o Patient must have pathologically confirmed kidney, bladder, breast, or lung cancer (per EMR) * Prior Treatment o Within three weeks (+/- 3 weeks) of starting PD-1 or PD(L)-1 immune checkpoint inhibitors as monotherapy or in combination with other therapies (per EMR) * Age ≥ 18 (per EMR) * Not Pregnant and Not Nursing (per self-report) * At least one essential need (e.g., food, transportation, housing), as determined by the ICCAN Essential Needs Screener (per self-report) * Lives in New York metro area, including Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania (per self-report) * Can speak English or Spanish (per self-report) * Has no significant psychiatric disturbance sufficient to preclude completion of the assessment measures, interview, or informed consent (i.e., acute psychiatric symptoms which require individual treatment) (per EMR, patient's care team, or study team) * Has no presence of cognitive impairment disorder (i.e., delirium or dementia) sufficient to preclude meaningful informed consent and/or data collection (per EMR, patient's care team, or study team)
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
8 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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City College of New York (Data Collection AND Specimen Analysis)
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNew York, New York, 10031, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (All Protocol Activities)
RECRUITINGBasking Ridge, New Jersey, 07920, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (All Protocol Activities)
RECRUITINGMontvale, New Jersey, 07645, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All Protocol Activities)
RECRUITINGNew York, New York, 10065, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (All Protocol Activities)
RECRUITINGMiddletown, New Jersey, 07748, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (All protocol activities)
RECRUITINGRockville Centre, New York, 11553, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk- Commack (All Protocol Activities)
RECRUITINGCommack, New York, 11725, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (All Protocol Activities)
RECRUITINGHarrison, New York, 10604, United States
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