Ozone therapy tested for cancer treatment side effects
NCT ID NCT05417737
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study follows 105 adults with chronic pain, nerve damage, or slow wound healing from cancer treatments. They receive ozone therapy as an add-on to their usual care. Researchers track changes in quality of life, anxiety, and depression to see if ozone therapy helps.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- ozone therapy
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a way to ease chronic pain and other lingering side effects from cancer treatments.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early observational study with no comparison group, so results may not prove ozone therapy works better than other options. Benefits may vary widely between patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 105 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2022
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2026
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 submitted to the Chronic Pain Unit of the Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr. Negrín for symptomatic/palliative treatment with ozone therapy because standard treatment does not exist, it has been unsuccessful, or it is associated with high risk or high morbidity.
- 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. Adults \> = 18 years old. 2. Patients submitted to the Chronic Pain Unit of the Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr. Negrín for symptomatic/palliative treatment with ozone therapy because conventional treatment does not exist, it has been unsuccessful, or it is associated with high risk or high morbidity. 3. After evaluation of symptoms and patients, it exists a potential benefit of adding ozone treatment to the current treatment. 4. Patients have no contraindications for ozone treatment. 5. Patients have signed and dated the informed consent for the compassionated ozone treatment and the specific informed consent for this study Exclusion Criteria: 1. Age \< 18 years old. 2. Psychiatric illness or social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements. 3. Those who are incapable to fill in the scales used to measure variables. 4. Hemodynamically or clinically unstable patients or uncontrolled severe illness. 5. Uncontrolled cancer disease requiring chemotherapy treatment. 6. Life expectancy \< 6 months 7. Contraindication or disability or to attend scheduled treatments. 8. Known allergy to ozone. 9. Pregnancy at the time of enrollment (for systemic ozone therapy). 10 Hemochromatosis (for systemic ozone therapy). 11\. Known significant glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (favism, acute hemolytic anemia) (for systemic ozone therapy). 12\. Patients who do not meet all the inclusion criteria
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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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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Dr. Negrín University Hospital
RECRUITINGLas Palmas, Las Palmas, 35019, Spain
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