Summary
Eligible participants will be allocated to either the intervention group or the control group depending on when they enter the study.
All participants will undergo standard and discovery pharmacogenomic panel testing. Standard panel test results and dosing recommendations (based on panel results) will be provided to all participants and their clinician before commencement of anti-cancer treatment.
Participants in the control group will receive dosing recommendations for Fluorouracil and Irinotecan chemotherapy.
Participants in the intervention group will receive dosing recommendations for Fluorouracil, Irinotecan and other commonly used medicines in the treatment or supportive care of cancer.
Participants will be followed up 5 times over a 12-week period. The first visit will occur within 30 days of commencement of anti-cancer treatment. Subsequent visits will occur 1 week, 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks after anti-cancer treatment commencement. At each follow up visist, participants will complete questionnaires regarding symptom burden/toxicity and quality of life.
This is the primary PRECISION-ITS trial. There is a nested cohort substudy with the registration number ACTRN12624000078550.
Conditions
This trial is treating people with gastrointestinal cancer, breast cancer, head and neck cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma