New study probes why cancer treatments cause nerve pain
NCT ID NCT00515060
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at how cancer treatments can cause nerve pain. Researchers will use simple tests, like checking how you feel heat, cold, and touch, along with small skin samples, to understand why this pain happens. The goal is to find better ways to measure and eventually treat this pain in adults with advanced cancer.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 450 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2001
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Patients, 18 years or older, with advanced cancer experiencing cancer therapy-induced pain.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Since moderate pain, albeit brief, will be induced, this feasibility project will be limited to consenting adults, 18 years old or older, in which there is also a well established QST database. 2. The subjects must be able to understand the nature of the study and have signed consent. 3. The patients must either: a) have pain that has developed as a consequence of cancer therapy with either vinca alkaloids, taxanes, bortezomib, thalidomide, platinum-based compounds or ionizing irradiation. OR b) have no pain that has developed as a consequence of cancer therapy, and are just entering chemotherapy with taxanes, vinka alkaloids, bortezomib, thalidomide, or platinum-based compounds 4. (For Healthy Controls) Willing to participate and have signed an informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients who refuse to participate or who are determined incapable of completing the research. 2. (For Healthy Controls) Receiving anti-coagulants, immunosuppressed or diabetic.
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
RECRUITINGHouston, Texas, 77030, United States
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