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The effect of very low carbohydrate and high fat diet on gastric cancer

Not Applicable
Conditions
Gastric cancer.
Malignant neoplasm of stomach
Registration Number
IRCT2016102830538N1
Lead Sponsor
Vice chancellor of research, International Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
20
Inclusion Criteria

( diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma; patients with ECOG performance status of 0 to 4; patients who have not been gastrectomized; blood, liver, and kidney should be functional; patients aged 18 years and older; both genders will be recruited; leucocytes count be over 3000 cell in each mm3 of blood; neutrophil count be over 1500 cubic millimeter of blood; platelets be over 1500 per each cubic millimeter of blood; total bilirubin lower than 3mg/dL; serum creatinine lower than 2mg/dL; serum potassium less than 5 mmol/L). (Exclusion criteria: Patients which live alone during the intervention without others attendance; Diabetes; patients receiving Insulin or other anabolic drugs along with intervention; pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency; and inherited porphyria ; MCT oil consumption until 5 weeks before recruitment in study; Having congestive heart failure; Uncontrolled hypertension. Severe steatorrhea and diarrhea; Gastrointestinal obstruction; Patients which could not resist the intervention for any reason; Frequent incidence of hypoglycemia during first week of intervention).

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: ELISA.;Ca19-9. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: ELISA.;Serum ketone bodies. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Spectrophotometer.;FBS. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Spectrophotometer.;Body Mass Index (BMI). Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Formula.;Hs-CRP. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Auto analyzer.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Insulin. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Auto analyzer.;Resting energy expenditure (REE). Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Gathering the produced CO2 by indirect calorimetry.;HOMA-IR. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Is calculated by the formula.;Serum Lactate. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Auto analyzer.;CBC-diff. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Complete blood count and differential.;Serum Albumin. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Auto analyzer.;Karnofsky score. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Observation.;Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG). Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Observation.;Bioelectric Impedance Analysis (BIA). Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: Weight.
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