Status:

WITHDRAWN

Effectiveness and Tolerance of Fentanyl Citrate in Painful Pain Induced During Diagnostic or Therapeutic Examinations in Cancer Patients

Lead Sponsor:

UNICANCER

Conditions:

Breakthrough Pain

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

A phase II, prospective, multicentre, single-blinded, randomised study (when fentanyl citrate is used outside of its marketing authorisation) Patients will be enrolled in an observational cohort when ...

Detailed Description

Primary objective (phase II trial): Evaluate the efficacy of an administration of fentanyl citrate to alleviate breakthrough pain caused by positional requirements of a diagnostic or therapeutic inte...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age ≥18 years.
  • Patients in follow up or being treated for cancer.
  • Patients with cancer-related pain (area of pain located near primary tumor or metastatic lesions).
  • Patients:
  • not having received any opioid treatment (opioid naïve).
  • or, treated for less than 7 days by a slow-releasing/extend-release opioid treatment; and/or by less than 60 mg per day of oral morphine, or less than 30 mg/day of oral oxycodone, or less than 8 mg/day of oral hydromorphone, or less than 25 µg/h of transdermal fentanyl.
  • Patients need to have at least one of the following interventions, lasting between 25 and 45 minutes during which they will be request to not move:
  • Radiotherapy session\*, including tomography (patients hospitalized or treated as outpatients).
  • Dosimetric scanner (hospitalized patients).
  • Positron-emission tomography\*\* (PET): PET-computed tomography \[CT\] scan and single photon emission computed tomography \[SPECT\]-CT scan (hospitalized patients).
  • Public health insurance coverage.
  • (\*) A patient who has numerous radiotherapy sessions can only be included once; (\*\*) with acquisition phase in a prostrate or decubitus dorsal position and strictly immobile in one of the cameras (PET or SPECT).
  • Inclusion criteria (cohort):
  • As for the inclusion criteria for the phase II study, with the following modifications:
  • 4\. Patients treated with a slow-releasing/extended-release opioid for:
  • more than 7 days.
  • and with at least 60 mg per day of oral morphine, or at least 30 mg/day of oral oxycodone, or at least 8 mg/day of oral hydromorphone, or at least 25 µg/h of transdermal fentanyl.
  • 5\. Patients who believes that they are cannot assume a prostrate or decubitus dorsal position for a diagnostic or therapeutic examination/intervention due to the pain they will experienced in this position,
  • Or
  • Patients experience breakthrough pain (numerical pain scale 5), in a region corresponding to the localization of the metastatic lesions or the primary tumor, when they assume a prostrate/decubitus dorsal position,
  • Or
  • Patients who have breakthrough pain (numerical pain scale 5) in a region corresponding to the localization of the metastatic lesions or the primary tumor that prevents the completion of a diagnostic or therapeutic examination/intervention.
  • 6\. Public health insurance coverage.

Exclusion

  • Patients with contraindication for the administration of fentanyl citrate: severe respiratory depression or a severe obstructive pulmonary disease.
  • Patients who have already participated in this study.
  • Patients with a history of alcoholism or substance/drug dependence.
  • Patients with an intravenous or subcutaneous opioid patient-controlled analgesic (PCA) pump.
  • Patients unable to communicate or understand instructions in French.
  • Patients deprived of their liberty or under protective custody or guardianship, or unable to provide their consent for study participation.
  • Patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2020

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 1 2023

Estimated Enrollment :

Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03809455

Start Date

February 1 2020

End Date

February 1 2023

Last Update

April 22 2020

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