Massive study to uncover hidden mental toll of cancer
NCT ID NCT07406113
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study aims to better understand psychiatric disorders, thinking problems, and treatment side effects in 2000 cancer patients and their close relatives. Researchers will compare those with and without mental health issues to find patterns and improve care. No new treatments are tested; the goal is to gather knowledge to help diagnose and support patients and families.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 2,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Jan 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2036
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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Who is studied
Participants will be recruited in the Clinical and Emergency Psychiatry Unit of the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS. The Clinical and Emergency Psychiatry Unit and provides outpatient psychiatric assessments and consultations in inpatients wards and day hospitals of the aforementioned institution. Subjects will undergo a first psychiatric evaluation by a clinician of the aforementioned unit. Then, the subject will be assigned to one of the study groups (see above).
- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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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: * For cases: any subject affected by cancer with a comorbid psychiatric disorder (further defined as "cases") or any first-degree relative of a subject of a "case" (i.e., i.e. a fist-degree relative of a subject affected by cancer and a psychiatric disorder). These first-degree relatives will be defined as "cases-rel". * For controls: a) Subjects with cancer who will undergo a consultation in the Clinical and Emergency Psychiatry Unit of the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS but who do not show any psychiatric symptoms (further defined as "oncology-controls"); b) subjects without cancer who will undergo a psychiatric evaluation in the Clinical and Emergency Psychiatry Unit and present psychiatric symptoms (further defined as "psy-controls"); c) Subjects without cancer and with any suspected psychiatric disorder who will undergo a psychiatric evaluation in the Clinical and Emergency Psychiatry Unit and who are not diagnosed with any relevant psychiatric symptoms after the evaluation (further defined as "healthy controls"); d) First-degree relatives of "oncology-controls", "psy-controls" and "healthy controls" (further defined as "control-rel"). * Age between 18 and 75 years. * Capability of providing written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Severe cognitive impairment or inability to provide written informed consent. * Severe unstable neurological disorders, such as traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's Disease or dementia. * Inability to perform psychiatric or neuropsychological evaluations.
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