The Symptom Outcomes and Practice Patterns (SOAPP) study, also known as E2Z02, was a survey of disease and treatment-related symptoms in patients with invasive cancer of the breast, prostate, lung, or colon/rectum.
The primary study objective was to describe the prevalence and severity of and the interference due to physical and psychological symptoms experienced over a 4- to 5-week period by cancer patients being followed on an outpatient basis at ECOG institutions
Secondary objectives were to determine: (1) whether the number of symptom-related interventions was related to the providers’ perception of symptom severity; (2) whether physical symptoms were more commonly prioritized and treated than psychological symptoms; (3) the percentage of patients who experienced a significant reduction in moderate to severe symptoms and to characterize the determinants of symptom relief; and (4) the focus and scope of interventions chosen by oncologists to improve the symptom control of patients seen in outpatient clinics
In addition, read the first E2Z02 (SOAPP) article published by the Journal of Clinical Oncology: Fisch MJ, Lee JW, Weiss M, et al. Prospective, observational study of pain and analgesic prescribing in medical oncology outpatients with breast, colorectal, lung, or prostate cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Apr 16;[Epub ahead of print].
