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Screening Tool to Identify the Dominant Pain Mechanism in Cancer Survivors: PainsCan

CompletedNCT03981809
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.

Brief summary (from the registry)

Development and internal validation of an easy-to-use tool for clinical pain assessment. The tool has to be applicable in any clinical practice and without the need for expensive and complicated hospital tools to identify the source of persistent pain after the treatment of cancer.

Study details

Official title
Development and Validation of a Screening Tool to Identify the Dominant Pain Mechanism in Cancer Survivors With Persistent Pain
Conditions
Interventions
  • Diagnostic test: Diagnostic test ("PainsCan") for the identification of the dominant pain mechanisms in cancer survivers with persistent pain
Sponsor
Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Collaborators
Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Belgium
Start date
2019-06-13
Primary completion
2022-12-30
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Results posted
No results posted in this snapshot
Countries
Belgium
Total sites listed
1

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patient treated for primary cancer: breast, prostate, lung/bronchus, colon/rectum, gynecologic (uterus or ovary) * Complete remission * Curative treatment finished * Ongoing hormonal and targeted treatment permitted * Patient experiences pain (NRS minimum 3/10 during the past week) Exclusion Criteria: * Active metastasis * Palliative status * Other type of cancer than mentioned in inclusion criteria * Pregnancy

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03981809