New program aims to ease distress for advanced lung cancer patients
NCT ID NCT04900935
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study is testing a new program called POISE for people with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer who are on targeted therapy. The program includes four visits with a specially trained palliative care clinician to help patients cope with uncertainty and manage their cancer. Researchers want to see if the program is practical and helpful for patients.
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Study facts
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- 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 70 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Sep 2023
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2027
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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- 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: * Age 18 or older * MGH Cancer Center patient * Within 6 months of diagnosis of metastatic NSCLC with oncogenic driver mutation (EGFR, ALK, ROS1, RET) * Receiving targeted therapy * Ability to respond in English or Spanish Exclusion Criteria: * Cognitive impairment or serious mental illness that limits ability to provide informed consent * Need for urgent palliative care or hospice referral * Pregnant women * Prisoners
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Massachusetts General Hospital
RECRUITINGBoston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States
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