
Around 1 in 5 people diagnosed with cancer in the UK take part in a clinical trial.
Please note - this trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available.
This study is looking at different quality of life questionnaires to see which one people with thyroid cancer prefer.
Treatments for thyroid cancer include surgery and radioactive iodine treatment. After surgery you may also take thyroid hormones.
Doctors try to assess what impact treatment has on peoples’ . They usually do this by asking people to fill in questionnaires asking about how they are feeling, any side effects they have and how their illness or treatment is affecting their lives.
But there are different quality of life questionnaires in use. In this study, researchers want to find out
The people taking part have the most common types of thyroid cancer called papillary thyroid cancer and follicular thyroid cancer.
You may be able to enter this study if you
You cannot enter this trial if you
The people taking part will fill in 4 quality of life questionnaires. The study team will ask you to complete the questionnaires in a certain order. The order in which you fill them in is chosen at random by a computer.
After completing all 4, there is 1 more questionnaire which asks what you thought of them. This includes a number of questions asking whether you found the quality of life questionnaires useful. You can also make comments and suggest things you think are important that are not covered in the questionnaires.
There are no extra hospital visits. It will take about half an hour to complete the questionnaires. The researchers will ask you to come to your next hospital appointment a bit early to do this. But if you want to, you can take the questionnaires home and return them by post in a stamped addressed envelope provided by the study team.
There are no side effects from taking part in this study. The questionnaires include some questions of a personal nature, such as questions about sexual activity. If you don’t want to answer any of the questions, you don’t have to. All your answers are and will not affect your treatment in any way.
Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.
Prof Hisham Mehanna
Macmillan Cancer Support
National Institute for Health Research Cancer Research Network (NCRN)
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
If you have questions about the trial please contact our cancer information nurses
Freephone 0808 800 4040
Around 1 in 5 people diagnosed with cancer in the UK take part in a clinical trial.