Alcohol Addiction and Otorhinolaryngology Cancer

Department of Clinical Research and Innovation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Alcoholism; Cancer of the Upper Aero-digestive Tract

Treatments: Procedure: Hospitalization for a week

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00825448

2008-A00634-51

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to compare the hospitalisation period in ORL surgery for two groups of patients. One of them will be treated for alcohol addiction to weaning them before the surgery ORL. The other group will be treated with usual methods.

Full description

Alcohol, associated or not associated with tobacco, is known to increase the incidence of ORL cancer. So, in fact many patients perform their ORL surgery operation in spite of their alcohol addiction.

Many studies showed that a post surgery weaning syndrome increases morbidity and mortality.

So our study will focuses on the benefits of pre surgery medical weaning program.

The protocol is an open randomised, prospective study. The patient will be divided in two groups. In one hand, the first group is designed as "treated" will get alcohol weaning in the hospital alcohol department. The patient will be hospitalized during one week before the ORL surgery.

During this hospitalisation, the patient will receive medicinal treatment, medical follow-up and psychological counselling.

In the other hand, the second group designed as "control group" will be hospitalized directly in ORL surgery department. The patient will be received a treatment for alcohol weaning according to their symptom.

After their hospitalisation, the treated group will be followed-up regularly for their alcohol addiction either in support group or in individual counselling. The control group will be followed-up with the usual method in the ORL surgery department.

The expected result is to improve the care for patients with alcohol addiction and who must have an ORL surgery reducing the hospitalisation duration, the level of post operative complication and increasing the abstinence level. 115 patients will be included in this study.

Enrollment: 115 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-80 years, male or female
• Clinically and histologically verified ORL cancer required surgery
• Patient with alcohol addiction
• Men must consume 21 glasses of wine a week
• Women must consume 14 glasses of wine a week
• CPAM affiliation
• Able to give written informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to give informed consent
• Patient with regulatory authority or private patient freedom

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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115 participants in 2 patient groups

2

Experimental group

Description:

patient in hospital a week before the date of surgery for the treatment of his addiction alcohol

Treatment:

Procedure: Hospitalization for a week

1

No Intervention group

Description:

no treatment of his addiction alcohol during a week before the date of surgery