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A randomized controlled trial using surgical gloves to prevent chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy by paclitaxel in breast cancer patients (AIUR trial)

Not Applicable
Conditions
Neoplasms
Registration Number
KCT0008371
Lead Sponsor
The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot yet recruiting
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
104
Inclusion Criteria

Age greater or equal to 19 years, under 70 years old
-Stage II-III breast cancer
-No distant metastasis
-Patient scheduled to be receiving adjuvant or neoadjuvant paclitaxel for at least 12 weeks
-Signed informed consent
-Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status = 2 (Karnofsky =60%)

Exclusion Criteria

-Recurred breast cancer
-Patients who have previously received treatment that could cause neuropathy; taxane or platinum-based chemotherapy, antitubulins, proteasome inhibitors
-Known history of neuropathy
-Chronic kidney disease
-Raynaud’s phenomenon
-Peripheral vascular disease; peripheral arterial ischemia
-Cold intolerance
-Allergy in natural rubber latex or surgical gloves
-Patients who have dermatitis, wound, or musculoskeletal problems in hand at enrollment
-Current use medications which may mitigate chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy; duloxetine, gabapentin/pregabalin, BAK (topical amitriptyline, ketamine, ±baclofen), oral cannabinoids, tricyclic antidepressants, ganglioside-monosialic acid
-Patients' condition that interferes with understanding and submitting the consent form

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional Study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Changes in the 11-item neurotoxicity component of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Taxane (FACT-NTX) Therapy subscale
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Changes in 16 items (neurotoxicity and tax) component of the FACT-Taxane Therapy subscale;Changes in 27 items (general) component of the FACT (FACT-G) scale;Changes in FACT-NTX at additional periods ;Change in National Cancer Institute-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI-CTCAE) for CIPN;Comfort with intervention scale score
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