Clinical Trial: NAVAH Impact on Radiation Therapy Completion in Black Breast & Prostate Cancer Patients
Study Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Recruit Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Condition: Breast Cancer
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Prospective Pilot Study of Navigator-Assisted Hypofractionation (NAVAH) Impact on Radiation Therapy Completion in Black Breast & Prostate Cancer Patients
Brief Summary:
African-Americans have disparately limited access to optimal cancer care.They have the highest overall cancer death rate and shortest survival time of any racial or ethnic group in the United States.Elucidation of disparities in access to cancer care are important since previous work has indicated that when equal access to RT in Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) prospective randomized trials is granted, race does not independently affect outcomes, a finding similar to work conducted in Level I…
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