Patient Navigation Program to Improve Clinical Trial Enrollment in Cancer Patients

PEM, cancer center support services material, and community resources and services available to cancer patients material. The PEM will be reviewed with the patient navigator before the participants appointment with the medical oncologist. If enrolled in a clinical trial, the patient navigator will call the participant biweekly, or more often if they are working to resolve any needs identified in the needs assessment) until the participant is successfully enrolled in the therapeutic clinical trial. The patient navigator will call the participant once weekly for 4 weeks, or less than 4 weeks in other cases including withdrawal from the clinical trial or this navigation study, disease progression, or death. The participant will receive a call 3 months after enrollment on the therapeutic clinical trial to complete the Exit Questionnaire

The participant will receive PEM, and community resources and services available to cancer patients material. The PEM will be reviewed with the patient navigator before the appointment with the medical oncologist. The patient navigator will call the participant 4 weeks after enrollment on the trial. The participant will receive a call 3 months after enrollment on the therapeutic clinical trial to complete the Exit Questionnaire