NCT02075385

Swallowing Intervention During Radiochemotherapy on Head and Neck Cancer

Randomized Phase II Trial: Swallowing Speech Pathology Intervention During Radiochemotherapy on Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 94 (actual)
• Sponsor: Barretos Cancer Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

General Objective: To evaluate the swallowing results of speech pathologist rehabilitation of advanced oropharynges, larynx and hypopharynx cancer patients during neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy concomitant to chemotherapy. Methods and Casuistic: Randomized clinical trial phase II. 80 patients with advanced oropharynges, larynx and hypopharynx cancer diagnoses from Barretos Cancer Hospital, which had the proposal of neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy. Patients are randomized on two groups: control group and speech pathology therapy group

Detailed description

To evaluate and compare the swallowing and life quality swallowing on a group undergoing to speech pathology therapy (intervention) and a control group (no intervention).

Conditions

• Head Neck Cancer
• Swallowing Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	pre, during and pos-treatment swallowing exercises	Speech pathology therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-07-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2015-08-01
• First posted: 2014-03-03
• Last updated: 2017-06-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil