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The Effect of Nutritional Counseling for Cancer Patients

NCT01962272 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 61

Last updated 2013-10-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Background and aims: Cancer-related malnutrition is multifactorial and related to a bad prognosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of intensive, individual dietary counseling of patients in radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy for gynecologic-, gastric-, or esophageal cancer.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Weekly nutritional counseling

The counseling included assessment of food intake, advice about improvement, motivation and specific food plans, as well as motivation to comply to the recommended dose of Forticare®.

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Forticare®.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Copenhagen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jens R Andersen, MD,MPA · University of Copenhagen

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-05-31
Completion
2010-09-30

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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Diseases

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