NCT01894828

Nutritional Supplementation in Patients With no Signs of Malnutrition

The Effect of Nutritional Supplementation in Cancer Patients With no Clinical Signs of Malnutrition

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: MedSource Polska · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study was to assess the effect of nutritional supplementation on nutritional status and postoperational complications in cancer patients with no clinical signs of malnutrition

Detailed description

In previous psychological studies our team found high level psychological stress in over 60% of cancer patients. This may cause numerous problems including anorexia, which together with biological disturbances can initiate cancer related catabolism even when it can not yet be seen. In this study we want to answer the question if oral nutritional supplementation can help the patient overcome the catabolism in its initial phase and improve nutritional status, which would result in reduced number of postoperational complications

Conditions

• Primary Neoplasm
• Secondary Neoplasm
• Abdominal Neoplasm

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Nutritional supplements	Patients are asked to drink two 200ml bottles of nutritional supplement daily for 14 days before surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2013-07-10
• Last updated: 2013-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Poland