Duloxetine in Treating Peripheral Neuropathy Caused by Chemotherapy in Patients With Cancer

Completed · Phase 3 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Neurotoxicity, Pain, Peripheral Neuropathy, Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

In brief

RATIONALE: Duloxetine may lessen peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy. It is not yet known whether duloxetine is more effective than a placebo in treating peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying duloxetine to see how well it works compared with a placebo in treating peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy in patients with cancer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00489411

Run by

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

People needed

231

Starts

2008-04-01

Expected to finish

2013-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-26

Who can join

Age: 25 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Alta Bates Summit Comprehensive Cancer Center — Berkeley, California, United States
• Peninsula Medical Center — Burlingame, California, United States
• East Bay Radiation Oncology Center — Castro Valley, California, United States
• Valley Medical Oncology Consultants - Castro Valley — Castro Valley, California, United States
• Cancer Care Center at John Muir Health - Concord Campus — Concord, California, United States
• Kaiser Permanente - Fremont — Fremont, California, United States
• Valley Medical Oncology — Fremont, California, United States
• Glendale Memorial Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center — Glendale, California, United States
• Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Hayward — Hayward, California, United States
• Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center — La Jolla, California, United States
• USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Contra Costa Regional Medical Center — Martinez, California, United States
• Camino Medical Group - Treatment Center — Mountain View, California, United States
• El Camino Hospital Cancer Center — Mountain View, California, United States
• Highland General Hospital — Oakland, California, United States
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Summit Campus — Oakland, California, United States
• Bay Area Breast Surgeons, Incorporated — Oakland, California, United States
• CCOP - Bay Area Tumor Institute — Oakland, California, United States
• Larry G Strieff MD Medical Corporation — Oakland, California, United States
• Tom K Lee, Incorporated — Oakland, California, United States
• Kaiser Permanente - Division of Research - Oakland — Oakland, California, United States
• Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Oakland — Oakland, California, United States
• Palo Alto Medical Foundation — Palo Alto, California, United States
• Study site — Pismo Beach, California, United States
• Kaiser Permanente - Deer Valley — Antioch, California, United States

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