Randomised double-blind placebo controlled study to determine whether the use of selective digestive decontamination pastilles reduces radiation mucositis
Completed
- Conditions
- Head and neckCancer
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN67519330
- Lead Sponsor
- K Co-ordinating Committee for Cancer Research (UKCCCR)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1. Patients with head and neck cancer receiving potentially curative doses of radiotherapy
2. Eligible patients may have squamous carcinoma, adenocarcinoma or salivary tumours arising in the oral cavity, nas -oro, or hypopharynx, larynx and paranasal sinuses
3. Stages T1-T4
4. No allergy to Polymyxin E, Tobramycin or Amphotericin B
5. No pre-existing oral or oropharyngeal infection
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ot provided at time of registration
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ot provided at time of registration