Education and Training
Community Health Workers and Precision Medicine
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether a trained community health worker (CHW) who engages with newly diagnosed patients after a diagnosis of cancer can effectively improve knowledge and receipt of evidence-based precision medicine cancer care services among low-income and minority patients.
Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial.
Stanford Investigator(s):
Intervention(s):
- behavioral: Community Health Worker Support
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Newly diagnosed patients with a cancer diagnosis.
- Patients with any relapse or progressive disease (any cancer diagnosis) as identified
by imaging or biopsy and confirmed by a physician.
- The patients must be 18 years or older.
- Patients must have the capacity to verbally consent in English or Spanish.
- Patients must be racial/ethnic minorities OR low-income status OR public insurance
(Medi-Cal or other) OR have health insurance provided by an agricultural company OR be
uninsured
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients under 18 years of age.
- Inability to consent to the study due to lack of capacity as documented by the
referring physician.
- Patients without a newly diagnosed malignancy or patients without relapse of disease.
Ages Eligible for Study
18 Years - N/A
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Not currently accepting new patients for this trial
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Manali I Patel, MD, MPH, MS
650-498-6000
Not Recruiting