Ginger in Treating Nausea in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy for Cancer

Completed · Phase 2/Phase 3 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Nausea, Vomiting

In brief

RATIONALE: Ginger may help reduce or prevent nausea. It is not yet known if antiemetic drugs are more effective with or without ginger in treating nausea caused by chemotherapy. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II/III trial is studying giving antiemetic drugs together with ginger to see how well they work compared to antiemetic drugs alone in treating nausea in patients who are receiving chemotherapy for cancer.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00040742
Run by
Gary Morrow
People needed
745
Starts
2003-03-01
Expected to finish
2011-12-01
Last updated by the study team
2015-11-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 120. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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