Wheatgrass Juice / Lifestyle Recommendations / Cancer Patients' Quality of Life / Chemotherapy Treatment (4001)

Israel Healthcare Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fatigue

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Wheatgrass juice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01215448

CMC-10-0054-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is aimed to study the impact of wheatgrass juice and lifestyle recommendations (diet, physical activity and breathing exercises) on the well being, fatigue and hematological parameters of chemotherapy-naive patients with no evidence for symptoms of active oncological disease.The researchers hypothesize that both wheatgrass juice and lifestyle recommendations can improve patient's well-being during chemotherapy.

Full description

Chemotherapy-naive patients will be offered to participate in a two arms study. Following consent, patients will be randomized to one of two arms. Patients in both arms will be provided by booklet and audio-cassette that specify lifestyle recommendations (diet, physical activity and breathing exercises). Patients in one of the study arms will be provided in addition with frozen wheatgrass juice (recommended daily dosage of 55-110 CC daily). Patients in both arms will be asked to fill in a daily patient's diary monitoring the practice of the lifestyle recommendations.

Baseline assessment will include the following questionnaires: ESAS, MYCAW, FACIT- Fatigue. Evaluation will include weekly ESAS and FACIT-Fatigue questionnaire and subsequent evaluation (including ESAS, MYCAW, FACIT- Fatigue questionnaires) following 3 and 4 chemotherapy cycles of treatment. Follow-up evaluation will be performed at the completion of chemotherapy.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of cancer with no sign of active disease
• First-time treatment with chemotherapy

Exclusion criteria

• Treatment with per os administration of chemotherapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 2 patient groups

Lifestyle changes

No Intervention group

Description:

Lifestyle changes(booklet and audio cassette of recommended diet, physical activity and breathing exercises)

Wheatgrass juice & lifestyle changes

Experimental group

Description:

Wheatgrass juice \& lifestyle changes

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Wheatgrass juice