Study of Nutritional Supplement Shakes in People About to Receive Their Debulking Surgery for Ovarian Cancer

Completed

Conditions studied: Debulking Surgery for Ovarian Cancer

In brief

The purpose of this study is to find out if it is possible to establish a nutritional support program for people who are scheduled to receive primary debulking surgery. Design: This will be a prospective observational study to assess the feasibility of implementing a preoperative nutrition supplementation program.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03956095

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

23

Starts

2019-05-16

Expected to finish

2025-12-19

Last updated by the study team

2025-12-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age ≥ 18
• Scheduled to undergo primary surgical debulking of ovarian, fallopian tube and primary peritoneal cancer
• Have a sufficient preoperative window during which the intervention can occur, with the last day of supplementation at least one and no more than two days prior to surgery; scheduling of the procedure should not be delayed due to participation in this investigation

You may not qualify if…

• Have received neoadjuvant chemotherapy
• Debulking surgery scheduled less than 8 days from initial visit
• Are scheduled for a minimally invasive procedure
• Unable to tolerate oral intake or have gastrointestinal issues that would prevent or prohibit oral supplement consumption
• Have diabetes mellitus
• Have allergies to the Ensure Surgery Immunonutrition Shake supplement
• Have galactosemia

Where it is running

• Baptist Alliance MCI — Miami, Florida, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (All Protocol Activities) — Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (All Protocol Activities) — Middletown, New Jersey, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (All Protocol Activities) — Montvale, New Jersey, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack (All Protocol Activities) — Commack, New York, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (All Protocol Activities) — Harrison, New York, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (All Protocol Activities) — Uniondale, New York, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.