NCT03278249

Feasibility Study of Modified Atkins Ketogenic Diet in the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Malignant Glioma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Cincinnati · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to see if people can produce ketones in their blood with the modified Atkins diet. Modified Atkins diet is a diet that produces ketones in your blood by restricting carbohydrates to \<20 grams per day. Ketones are substances that are produced in the blood when fat is being broken down. Ketones may help radiation work better and may starve your tumor because it is thought that some brain tumors can not use ketones to grow and can only use sugar or glucose to grow.

Conditions

• Glioblastoma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Modified Atkins Ketogenic Diet	Less than 20 grams of carbohydrates per day

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-12
• Primary completion: 2021-12-01
• Completion: 2022-01-01
• First posted: 2017-09-11
• Last updated: 2024-09-19
• Results posted: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States