Pan-Canadian Lung Cancer Observational Study (PALEOS)

Lung cancer is no longer considered a single entity. In the real world of lung cancer, it consists of many subgroups that are defined in different ways by different clinicians and researchers. In broad categories, these include sociodemographic, molecular, treatment or biomarker driven subgroups, to name a few. As a result, the single site/centre study of lung cancer is not viable, as no single site/centre has adequate numbers of each subgroup to study by themselves. PALEOS is designed to use the power of a multi-institutional study to evaluate these important questions of natural history, treatment patterns, outcomes as they relate to new diagnostic, new biomarker, new treatments. Real world data will be generated by PALEOS. Thus, there will be broader understanding of how treatments and outcomes that were originally studied in the clinical trials setting would now be translated into the real-world setting. The information from this initiative will result in knowledge translation across disciplines.

Centre/Local Principle investigator and/or Co-investigators or their designee will identify potential patients through physician and hospital medical records, as well as clinic patient lists/databases, hospital pharmacy databases, hospital patient access program lists/databases and hospital pathology databases.

Potential prospective patients will be given a PALEOS Study Information Sheet in clinic or via mail/email, via their circle of care. Study staff will contact the patient by phone, or the patient can contact the study staff if they do not want to participate in the study. The ICF will be made available to the participant if they confirm interest in the study or if they provide verbal consent to participate. The ICF will be provided in person at the clinic or verbally if participant is not able to come to the clinic. The consenting process must be documented clearly in the patient study file by the study staff. The PALEOS Study Information Sheet and ICF will also be sent to referring physicians for patients that are eligible. Patients can opt out of the surveys if they choose to and only consent to data collection. Follow-up contact will be done by the study staff in clinic, by phone, email, or virtually.

After enrollment, Initial/baseline survey of standard demographic information will be collected. Medical records will be reviewed by principal investigator, co-investigator or authorized designee. Data abstraction for each patient's medical history will be performed and entered directly into a secured database with minimal identifiers of the participating patient. Participating patient will be added a study specific unique identifier and that will be used to identify the data. Only the de-identified data will be analyzed to assess patient outcomes and results of treatment, as well as to uncover links between clinical data and pathological and molecular subtypes, where applicable. Study operational documents will be updated regularly (at least annually) and will specify which genetic alterations are current priorities for recruitment. The study will begin with ALK, EGFR, ROS1, ERBB2 (HER2), exon 20 EGFR mutation, MET,BRAF, RET, NTRK and KRAS-G12C patients, with the goal of expanding into other rare molecular alterations as and when they are discovered or become relevant . Patient reported outcomes measure for patients with rare molecular alterations will also be captured and analyzed. Patients will be invited to complete health-related quality of life (HRQoL) surveys in English or French language.