Trial Summary
What is the purpose of this trial?Investigators will address the overarching challenge of advancing health equity and reducing disparities in prostate cancer by informing efforts to reduce travel burden in prostate cancer (PCa) treatment access among Black men.
Eligibility Criteria
This trial is specifically for Black men with intermediate or high-risk prostate cancer who are seeking surgery or radiation at the Mass General Brigham Prostate Cancer Outreach Clinic. Participants should live in areas of Massachusetts with high travel burdens to medical appointments, or personally report transportation challenges.Inclusion Criteria
I am looking for a final treatment for prostate cancer, either surgery or radiation, at the Mass General Brigham Prostate Cancer Outreach Clinic.
This clinical trial is not open to black men.
My prostate cancer is not low-risk.
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Exclusion Criteria
N/A
Participant Groups
The study is testing a ride share service to see if it helps reduce the difficulty of getting to treatment appointments for prostate cancer patients facing travel hardships. The goal is to improve health equity by making access to care easier.
1Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Ride Share ParticipantsExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Investigators will recruit Black men with intermediate or high-risk PC who are seeking definitive treatment at Mass General Brigham Prostate Cancer Outreach Clinic, as Black men are more likely to report travel burden when accessing care and, therefore, most likely to benefit from ridesharing services.
Investigators will implement a pre/post-evaluation design with matched historical controls to estimate the impact of rideshares on reducing missed appointments. Historical controls will be sampled from the pre-intervention period of April 2022 to September 2024 and the post-intervention period between October 2024 and November 2025, where October 2024 represents the initiation of the intervention. Participants who identify as Black, reside in a census tract in Massachusetts, and have been recognized as having a high travel burden based on results from Aim 1 will be eligible to receive the rideshare intervention
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Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, MA
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
Brigham and Women's HospitalLead Sponsor
United States Department of DefenseCollaborator
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteCollaborator