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Oral Cancer Screening in Mumbai, India by Primary Health Care Workers

NCT00655421 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 329

Last updated 2009-07-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

A feasibility study to compare the test characteristics of three different oral cancer screening techniques performed by trained primary health care workers:1)Unaided Visual Inspection, 2)VelScope Assisted Examination, and 3) Examination after application of Toluidine Blue dye.

Conditions

  • Oral Cancer
  • Precancerous Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Unaided Visual Inspection

Simple unaided visual inspection of the oral cavity with a bright white light source by trained Primary Health Care Worker

DEVICE

VelScope

Examination of the oral cavity through a VelScope by trained Primary Health Care Worker

OTHER

Toluidine Blue Assisted Oral Examination

Examination of the oral cavity after the local application of Toluidine Blue dye by trained Primary Health Care Worker

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American Cancer Society, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Emory University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tata Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Surendra S Shastri, MD · Tata Memorial Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2009-09-30
Completion
2009-09-30

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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