Chill out chemo pain: new device may stop nerve damage
NCT ID NCT07064798
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a device that cools and squeezes the arms and legs during chemotherapy to prevent nerve damage, which can cause numbness, tingling, and pain. Fifty adults with breast or gynecologic cancer receiving taxane chemo will wear the device during infusions. Researchers will check if it reduces nerve symptoms, how long people can tolerate it, and if it's safe.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Paxman Limb Cryocompression System (cooling and compression device)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could give patients a simple, drug-free way to prevent or reduce nerve damage from taxane chemotherapy.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 50 people, so results may not apply to everyone. The device may be uncomfortable or cause skin issues, and it might not reduce nerve symptoms as hoped.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 50 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2027
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.
- 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: * Adults \> 18 years of age * Gynecologic or breast malignancy * Starting 1st cycle of treatment with chemotherapy regimens: * Weekly paclitaxel x 12 or weekly paclitaxel/carboplatin x 12, Q2 weeks paclitaxel X4 (preceded by doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide). (Breast Oncology) * Q3 weeks paclitaxel/carboplatin X 6-8 (GYN) * Receiving treatment on the main campus of DFCI (these patients are currently seen on Yawkey 9 and 10 and at Chestnut Hill) * Able to complete questionnaires in English or Spanish Exclusion Criteria: * Previous exposure to neurotoxic chemotherapy * Pre-existing neuropathy * History of Raynaud's phenomenon, cold agglutinin disease, cryoglobulinemia, cryofibrinogenemia, post-traumatic cold dystrophy, peripheral arterial ischemia, or sickle cell disease * Undergoing desensitization * Lymphedema in the limb where the device would be applied * Open skin wounds or ulcers of the limbs where the device would be applied
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
RECRUITINGBoston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
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