Curcumin in Advanced Cervical Cancer

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Determine the efficacy and safety of turmeric in the treatment of patients with advanced cervical cancer. Efficacy will be determined through radiological and histopathological criteria through the rate of response to treatment, duration of response, the rate of objective response and disease control, as well as overall survival and disease-free survival. The safety of therapy will be evaluated according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) classification

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Columbia
• Treatments: Curcumin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Women aged 18 years or older

• Voluntary acceptance of participation and signing of informed consent

• Radiotherapy indication

• Histological confirmation of squamous cervical cancer or histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma

• Stage IIB - VAT

• Chemo-radiation indication with Cisplatin, Cisplatin/fluorouracil, Carboplatin (if cisplatin intolerant)

• ECOG equal to or less than 1 and a Karnofsky index equal to or greater than 70%.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Being pregnant or breastfeeding

• Presence of second concomitant neoplasia

• Any previous surgical, radiotherapy or chemotherapy treatment.

• Diagnosis of invasive recurrent carcinoma of the cervix

• Receive anticoagulant therapy

• Receive immunosuppression therapy

• Presence of coagulation disorders, such as platelet count less than 100,000 at the time of the joint evaluation, absolute neutrophil count less than 1,500 / ml

• Presence of signs of systemic infection

• Renal failure, creatinine clearance less than 45 ml/min confirmed with glomerular filtration less than 45 ml / min; evidence of unilateral renal exclusion

• Patients with uncontrolled metabolic disease