The purpose of this study is to understand how monitoring symptoms at home after lung cancer diagnosis could impact quality of care and the likelihood of returning to the hospital. This study will also help us understand whether symptom monitoring in patients with advanced lung cancer is helpful for patients and the clinical teams who care for them.
Do you want to learn more about your emotions? If you are between 18 and 80 years old, you may be able to take part in a research study to explore how your brain and body create emotions. Up to $255 compensation provided.
Have you been diagnosed with pleural fluid, and have been referred for a pleural fluid drainage? If so, you may be able to participate in a research registry to help us learn more about lung cancer.
Have you ever been diagnosed with metastatic triple negative breast cancer and received 2 or less lines of chemotherapy for your metastatic disease? If so you may be eligible for a trial to evaluate different treatment combination with avelumab for your metastatic breast cancer.
Have you ever been diagnosed with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer and had disease progression after receiving at least one type of therapy? If so you may be eligible for a clinical trial that tests niraparib in combination with trastuzumab.
Have you been diagnosed with HER-2 positive breast cancer and have already received treatment with chemotherapy followed by surgery? Was your breast cancer still present at time of surgery and removed? If so you may be eligible for a trial to see if a combination of T-DM1 with tucatinib is better than receiving T-DM1 alone at preventing your cancer from returning.
Have you been diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer? If so, you may be able to take part in an International Registry for Men.
Have you been diagnosed with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma? If so, you may be able to take part in a research study looking at the safety and effectiveness of giving a combination of treatments to patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who are toxicity-vulnerable.
Have you recently been diagnosed with breast cancer but have not yet started treatment (other than surgery)? You may be able to take part in the UNC CogMAP study. In this study, we want to learn more about cognitive and brain function before and after cancer treatment. This will help us to better understand risk factors for experiencing cognitive difficulties during and after treatment.
Participants are asked to come into the lab for a 1.5-hour session. During this session they will complete questionnaires and tasks. Questionnaires will ask about physical and mental health, life experiences, emotions, and cognitive associations. Tasks are designed to measure participants' sensitivity to heartbeat and stomach sensations, as well as socioemotional functioning.