Efficacy and Safety of Moisturising Cream With or Without Vitamin E and Urea Cream in Palmar-plantar Erythrodysesthesia

NCT05939726 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 145

Last updated 2026-01-14

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Summary

This is a single-centre, phase II, three-arm, randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a cosmetic moisturising cream containing palm-oil-derived vitamin E concentrate or a similar moisturising cream without the vitamin E concentrate in addition to urea-based cream, or urea-based cream alone (1:1:1) in patients who are receiving capecitabine-based cancer therapy and develop capecitabine-associated PPE of NCI-CTCAE grade 1.

Conditions

  • Palmar-Plantar Erythrodysesthesia
  • Palmar-Plantar Erythrodysesthesia Due to Cytotoxic Therapy

Interventions

OTHER

Moisturising cream with vitamin E concentrate

The vitamin E moisturising cream contains 3% w/w of palm-oil-derived vitamin E concentrate, consisting of the following isomers: alpha-tocopherol, alpha-tocotrienol, beta-tocotrienol, gamma-tocotrienol, and delta-tocotrienol. This formula provides a total of 1.2g tocotrienols per 100g product.

OTHER

Moisturising cream without vitamin E concentrate

This moisturising cream is a similar moisturising cream but without the addition of the vitamin E concentrate

OTHER

Urea cream

Urea cream (10%w/w) is used as the standard of care for PPE.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Avantsar Sdn. Bhd.

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • Universiti Sains Malaysia

    collaborator OTHER
  • Sarawak General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pei Jye Voon, M.D · Sarawak General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-05-16
Primary Completion
2025-05-22
Completion
2025-06-20

Countries

  • Malaysia

Study Locations

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