Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00366717
Cytomegalovirus Reactivation in Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 20 (planned)
- Sponsor
- Mackay Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 20 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infects most of the world population. This study is to understand if chemotherapy will increase the chance of reactivating CMV. The results may help us in determining when treatment is needed and perhaps Why is it needed.
Detailed description
Despite CMV reactivation has been clearly described in patients underwent transplantation, this phenomenon has not been studied in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Our purpose is to understand if CMV number increases in monocytic leukocytes during chemotherapy and how is the host response to that changes. Virus load will be studied by quantitative PCR, host response will be studied by measuring patient's anti-CMV IgG, CMV-associated symptoms, serum IFN-r and TNF-a.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2005-06-01
- Completion
- 2006-01-01
- First posted
- 2006-08-21
- Last updated
- 2006-08-21
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Taiwan
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00366717. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.