A nurse‐led intervention in patients with newly diagnosed cancer and Type 2 diabetes: A pilot randomized controlled trial feasibility study

• Published in: Cancer medicine (Malden, MA) Vol. 12; no. 11; pp. 12874 - 12880
• Main Authors: Scarton, Lisa, Nelson, Tarah, Jo, Ara, O’Neal, LaToya J., Yao, Yingwei, Huggins, Shavondra, Legaspi, Anatolia B., McClaren, Mariah J., Cabassa, Jake S., Burgos Melendez, Joan M., Munoz‐Pena, Juan M., Markham, Merry J., Murphy, Martina C., Chatzkel, Jonathan A., Rogers, Sherise, George, Thomas J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.06.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Adult; Brief Communication; Cancer; Cell cycle; Chemotherapy; clinical management; Clinical trials; community outreach; Consent; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus (non-insulin dependent); Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - diagnosis; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - drug therapy; Education; Efficiency; Electronic health records; Feasibility Studies; Glucose; Glycated Hemoglobin; Humans; Life span; medical oncology; Medical prognosis; Metformin; Metformin - therapeutic use; Mortality; Neoplasms - diagnosis; Neoplasms - drug therapy; Nurse's Role; Oncology; Patient satisfaction; Pilot Projects; Primary care; screening; Smoking; Sociodemographics; Software; clinical management; medical oncology; screening; clinical trials; community outreach

Background Undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been associated with advanced stage cancer at diagnosis, higher mortality, and lower long‐term all‐cause survival. This was a RCT pilot study to examine the feasibility of a nurse‐led T2D intervention for adults with newly diagnosed cancer (≤3 months)...