Taste Steering in Patients With Cancer Who Are Treated With Chemotherapy: a Multicentre Randomized Intervention Trial
Condition: Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer or Metastatic Testicular Cancer, or Stage II-IV Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma
Study Type: Interventional
Clinical Trials Identifier NCT 8-digits: NCT07258563
Sponsor: University Medical Center Groningen
Eligibility:
- Age: minimum 18 Years maximum 70 Years
- Gender: All
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥18 and ≤70 years
- Indication to start chemotherapy for:
- Metastatic triple negative breast cancer
- Metastatic testicular cancer
- Stage II-IV diffuse large B cell lymphoma
- Chemotherapy scheduled to start in the next 6 weeks
- Consuming solid foods and drinks is possible
- ≤50% of recommended daily intake in kcal consists of oral nutritional supplements
- Oral mucositis grade ≤2 (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, version 5.0)
- Ability to comply with all protocol-required actions
- Written informed consent
- For the intervention phase only: subjective change in taste since start of chemotherapy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy
- Currently experiencing taste or smell problems
- Previous or current radiotherapy of head and neck region
- Enteral feeding through tube or parenteral feeding
- Participation in another clinical trial aimed at preventing or treating taste and/or smell alterations
- Chronic (>1 month) high dose corticosteroids (>10 mg prednisone/day or equivalent).
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