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Cryotherapy Intervention for Docetaxel-induced Nail Toxicities

NCT00911352 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2012-12-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Between 30% and 88% of chemotherapy patients receiving docetaxel experience side effects of the hand ranging from skin and nail disfigurement, blistering, desquamation, pain, infection, and impaired treatment-related quality of life and function. Preliminary data indicate that nurse-initiated cryotherapy during treatment may lower the incidence and severity of these side effects, but several issues should be addressed before this intervention is implemented in hospital settings. These include more rigorous study design, larger sampling frames, and consideration of infection control concerns. This study will address these issues, thereby rigorously evaluating the safety and efficacy of nurse-initiated cryotherapy at Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Conditions

  • Effects of Chemotherapy

Interventions

DEVICE

Frozen gel glove (Elasto-Gel Mitten)

Gel glove is frozen for \> 3 hours at -5 to -30°C prior to use. Each patient wears a triple glove set (surgical glove overlaid with cotton glove, overlaid with gel glove) on their intervention hand. Gloves are worn for duration of infusion (15 mins pre, 60 minutes intratreatment and 15 mins post) to ensure the patients' peripheries are vasoconstricted on commencement of the infusion and for enough time afterwards to ensure circulating drug does not reach the target area. Because of the duration of the infusion, more than one gel glove will be used successively (for 45 minutes each) to maintain a consistently low temperature on the hand and nails.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alexandra McCarthy, PhD · Queensland University of Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-10-31
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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