American Ginseng Extract in Preventing Respiratory Infection and in Reducing Antibiotic Use in Patients With CLL
Completed · Phase 2 · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Leukemia
In brief
RATIONALE: American ginseng extract may prevent or reduce acute respiratory illness in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. It is not yet known whether American ginseng extract is more effective than a placebo in preventing respiratory infections. PURPOSE: This randomized trial is studying the side effects of American ginseng extract and to see how well it works compared with a placebo in preventing respiratory infection and in reducing antibiotic use in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00752895
- Run by
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- People needed
- 293
- Starts
- 2008-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-09-28
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- St. Joseph Hospital Regional Cancer Center - Orange — Orange, California, United States
- Helen and Harry Gray Cancer Center at Hartford Hospital — Hartford, Connecticut, United States
- Saint Anthony's Hospital at Saint Anthony's Health Center — Alton, Illinois, United States
- Rush-Copley Cancer Care Center — Aurora, Illinois, United States
- St. Joseph Medical Center — Bloomington, Illinois, United States
- Graham Hospital — Canton, Illinois, United States
- Memorial Hospital — Carthage, Illinois, United States
- Eureka Community Hospital — Eureka, Illinois, United States
- Evanston Northwestern Healthcare - Evanston Hospital — Evanston, Illinois, United States
- Galesburg Clinic, PC — Galesburg, Illinois, United States
- Galesburg Cottage Hospital — Galesburg, Illinois, United States
- Mason District Hospital — Havana, Illinois, United States
- Hopedale Medical Complex — Hopedale, Illinois, United States
- McDonough District Hospital — Macomb, Illinois, United States
- Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at Loyola University Medical Center — Maywood, Illinois, United States
- Trinity Cancer Center at Trinity Medical Center - 7th Street Campus — Moline, Illinois, United States
- Good Samaritan Regional Health Center — Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States
- BroMenn Regional Medical Center — Normal, Illinois, United States
- Community Cancer Center — Normal, Illinois, United States
- Community Hospital of Ottawa — Ottawa, Illinois, United States
- Oncology Hematology Associates of Central Illinois, PC - Ottawa — Ottawa, Illinois, United States
- Cancer Treatment Center at Pekin Hospital — Pekin, Illinois, United States
- Proctor Hospital — Peoria, Illinois, United States
- CCOP - Illinois Oncology Research Association — Peoria, Illinois, United States
- Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center - Burbank — Burbank, California, United States
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