NCT04543175

Taste Disorders and Their Relation to BMI, FFQ, and EORTC QLQ-BR23 in Breast Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy.

Taste Disorders and Their Relation to Body Mass Index, Food Frequency Questionnaire and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 106 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital General de Mexico · Other Government
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Taste disorders in cancer patients during chemotherapy could be consider as multifactorial disease, it is related with changes of food consumption. Approximately 36-69% of the patients under chemotherapy suffer oral toxicity or dysgeusia A prospective case- only observational study was conducted in patients of the Hospital General de México for two years. A self-reported taste survey was used, and patients scored their results in a Likert scale.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer
• Taste Disorders
• Dysgeusia
• Ageusia
• Quality of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Taste disorder´s test	Each patient performed their own test placing three drops with a disposable dropper from each bottle into the center of the tongue for whole-mouth testing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-01-01
• Completion: 2019-01-01
• First posted: 2020-09-10
• Last updated: 2020-09-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Mexico