NCT02564887

Pilot Study to Improve Therapeutic Outcomes for Dysphagia After Radiation Therapy

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jonas Johnson · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients with head and neck cancer treated with chemoradiation, often develop a treatment associated dysphagia. The common complaint is foods sticking in the pharynx. This study seeks to test the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) in the management of treatment induced dysphagia following chemoradiation for oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, hypopharyngeal cancer. This pilot study seeks to compare standard exercise therapy plus IOPI to standard exercise alone to determine if recovery is enhanced and to determine if rate of recovery is accelerated.

Conditions

• Dysphagia
• Oral Pharyngeal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Iowa Oral Performance Instrument	the IOPI device is being used to increase tongue strength and endurance

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-01-31
• Completion: 2019-09-06
• First posted: 2015-10-01
• Last updated: 2020-03-23
• Results posted: 2020-03-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States