Thymosin-α1 for Cancer-Related Fatigue in Cancer Patients Who Undergo Chemotherapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 3 期
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 200
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in Cancer-Related Fatigue Scale
研究概览
简要总结
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment that is not proportion to recent activity and interferes with usual functioning. Compared with general fatigue, CRF have the characteristics of long duration and generally cannot alleviate by rest or sleep, serious impact on the patient's work, study, entertainment and family life, and thus greatly affect the recovery, self-care ability and life quality of patients. Many dates showed that 70%~100% of cancer patients experienced cancer-related fatigue.For cancer-related fatigue there is no good treatment and intervention, in recent years, many clinical trials are carried out; central nervous stimulant, such as methylphenidate; acupuncture, aerobic exercise. All those measures may have certain therapeutic effect for CRF, but don't have exact evidences from massive RCT to confirm.
Thymosin-α1 (T-α1), a synthetic 28-amino acid peptide with multiple biological activities primarily directed towards immune response enhancement, this drug is used for the treatment of HBV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, and being developed for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), hepatocellular carcinoma, AIDS and malignant melanoma. T-α1 is able to potentiate the action of cytokines and also reduce the hematological toxicity of cytotoxic drug therapy, such as cyclophosphamide, 5-fluorouracil, dacarbazine.
In this studies, we want to demonstrated that the effectiveness of Thymosin-α1 for cancer-related fatigue in cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 80 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Men and women aged 18 years and older.
- •The life expectancy at least 6 months.
- •With a definite pathological diagnosis of cancer, and undergo chemotherapy.
- •Patients who are willing to participate in the study.
排除标准
- •Thymosin-α1 allergy.
- •Using the spirit excitement or stimulant drugs.
- •With brain metastasis or primary malignant brain tumors.
- •With mental disorders, such as suffering from dementia, delirium, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, epilepsy.
- •Other specific causes of fatigue: such as anemia, thyroid function is low, insomnia, uncontrolled pain.
- •Serious HRS cardiopulmonary function disorder.
- •Women during pregnancy and lactation.
研究组 & 干预措施
Arm T
Will be treated with Thymosin-α1 1.6mg twice a week from day 1 of chemotherapy
干预措施: Thymosin-α1 (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Cancer-Related Fatigue Scale
时间窗: baseline and 4 weeks
次要结局
- improvement in Quality of Life(baseline and 4 weeks)
研究者
Zhigang Zhang
Doctor
Zhejiang University