Taste Disorders and Their Relation to BMI, FFQ, and EORTC QLQ-BR23 in Breast Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy.

NCT04543175 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 106

Last updated 2020-09-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Taste disorders in cancer patients during chemotherapy could be consider as multifactorial disease, it is related with changes of food consumption. Approximately 36-69% of the patients under chemotherapy suffer oral toxicity or dysgeusia

A prospective case- only observational study was conducted in patients of the Hospital General de México for two years. A self-reported taste survey was used, and patients scored their results in a Likert scale.

Conditions

  • Breast Cancer
  • Taste Disorders
  • Dysgeusia
  • Ageusia
  • Quality of Life

Interventions

OTHER

Taste disorder´s test

Each patient performed their own test placing three drops with a disposable dropper from each bottle into the center of the tongue for whole-mouth testing.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital General de Mexico

    lead OTHER_GOV

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-01
Primary Completion
2018-01-01
Completion
2019-01-01

Countries

  • Mexico

Study Locations

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