Can meal timing protect your brain during cancer treatment?
NCT ID NCT06315296
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested a text-message-based diet program called Txt4fasting for people with breast or lung cancer that spread to the brain. The goal was to see if eating only during certain hours could reduce thinking and memory problems after radiation. Only 1 person enrolled before the study was stopped, so we don't have enough data to know if it works.
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Study facts
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- 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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1 person
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Dec 2023
- Finished
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Oct 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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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
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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: * Age 18 years or older * Pathologically proven breast or lung cancer primary malignancy confirmed * Body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25 kg/m\^2 * SRS candidate (1-10 MRI detected brain metastases as per the discretion of radiologist) as determined by the treating physician * Chemotherapy, hormone, and immune therapy will be allowed concurrently * Willing and able to comply with the protocol for the duration of the study * Able to speak, read and write English * Negative pregnancy test if childbearing potential * Owns a mobile phone with mobile text messaging (TXT) capability Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to tolerate a normal diet (may include an active malabsorption syndrome at the time of consent \[i.e. Crohn's disease, major bowel resection leading to permanent malabsorption\]) * Not a SRS candidate as determined by the treating physician * Prior brain surgery ≤ 14 days prior to enrollment * Intractable seizures while on adequate anticonvulsant therapy-more than 1 seizure per week for the past 2 months * Patient with a diagnosis of glioma, or other World Health Organization (WHO) grade II-IV primary brain tumor
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, United States
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