Recruiting

Legal Care

Sponsor:

Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota

Code:

NCT07153016

Conditions

Caregiver Burden

Colorectal Cancer

Legal Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Legal Services

Study Details

Brief summary:

This is a single center single-arm, pilot study of proactive and early connection with free legal care services for patient-caregiver dyads affected by colorectal cancer to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of this intervention in improving financial and psychosocial outcomes.

Participants (i.e. patient-caregiver dyads) will receive free, personalized legal care services from Cancer Legal Care (CLC), a nonprofit organization located in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. The duration of study participation is 3 months, however, participants may continue to access free personalized legal care services beyond this period.

Conditions

Caregiver Burden

Colorectal Cancer

Legal Intervention

Study ID

NCT07153016

Start date

Sep 9, 2025

Status verified date

Sep, 2025

Completion date

Dec 31, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 31, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Colorectal Cancer Patient Inclusion Criteria:

  • Diagnosis of advanced stage (Stage III or Stage IV) colorectal cancer within the past 3 months.
  • Initiated or planning to initiate systemic cancer therapy.
  • Able to identify a caregiver for study participation.
  • Estimated life expectancy of over 6 months in the opinion of the treating oncologist.
  • 18 years of age or older at the time of consent.
  • Able to understand, speak, read, and write in English.
  • Able to provide voluntary written consent prior to the performance of any research related activity.

Caregiver Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years of age or older at the time of consent.
  • Identified as a caregiver by a colorectal cancer patient.
  • Able to understand, speak, read, and write in English.
  • Able to provide voluntary written consent prior to the performance of any research related activity.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Lacks capacity to consent/diminished capacity to consent.

Study Design

Enrollment

20 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Patient - Caregiver Dyads

Participants (i.e. patient-caregiver dyads) will receive free, personalized legal care services from Cancer Legal Care (CLC), a nonprofit organization located in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

Interventions

Legal Services

Legal care services from Cancer Legal Care (CLC), a nonprofit organization located in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

Primary outcome measure

  • Feasibility [ Time Frame: 3 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Arjun Gupta, MBBS

612-626-5906arjgupta@umn.edu

Locations

Masonic Cancer Center

Recruiting

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455

More Information

Sponsor

Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota

Last update posted

Sep 16, 2025

Last verified

Sep, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota on 2025-09-16.