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Last refreshed on: 20 March 2023
Main ID:  NCT02869399
Date of registration: 11/08/2016
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano
Public title: Tertiary Prevention of Head and Neck Cancer With a Dietary Intervention DietINT
Scientific title: A Randomized Phase II Study for Tertiary Prevention of Squamocellular Cancer of Head and Neck (SCCHN) With a Dietary Intervention
Date of first enrolment: November 2015
Target sample size: 94
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02869399
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Austria Germany Italy Poland Portugal Slovenia
Contacts
Name:     Lisa Licitra, MD
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Affiliation:  Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Tumori Milano
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- High-risk effectively cured stage III and IV HNSCC

- Oropharyngeal cancer will be enrolled only if with a smoking history of more than 10
pack/years

- Able to swallow at least a soft pureed diet

- Male or female > 18 years

- Signed written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- Serious or uncontrolled co-existent non-malignant disease, including active and
uncontrolled infection

- Non parotid-sparing RT

- Severely malnourished patients (patients with a weight loss greater that 5% in the
last month before enrollment and with a BMI < 20)

- Diabetic patients in pharmacological treatment

- Participation in clinical trials with other experimental agents within 30 days of
study entry or concomitant treatment with other experimental drug

- Previous or concurrent cancer that is distinct in primary site or histology from the
cancer being evaluated in this study

- Other significant disease that in the investigator's opinion would exclude the subject
from the trial

- Patients unable to comply with the protocol, in the opinion of the investigator



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Cancer of Head and Neck
Intervention(s)
Dietary Supplement: dietary intervention in addition to standard recommendations
Primary Outcome(s)
Change in inflammatory cytokine profile during the course of dietary intervention [Time Frame: 36 months]
Identification of saliva and plasma miRNAs and evaluation of their change in the 2 arms of treatment [Time Frame: 36 months]
Reduction in the incidence of tumor recurrence and second primaries [Time Frame: 36 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Identification of cytokine and growth factors [Time Frame: 36 months]
Reduction of treatment related side effects [Time Frame: 36 months]
Monitoring of DNA methylation [Time Frame: 36 months]
EORTC HN35 quality of life scales [Time Frame: 36 months]
Secondary ID(s)
INT 18/15
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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