Better Options for Chronic Cancer Pain
Recruiting
Phase 4
Interventional Study
Chronic Pain
Cancer Survivor
Opioid Dependence
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
Prior Safety Data
This treatment has already been tested in at least one earlier human trial.
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
At a Glance
- Age
- 18 – 99
- Sex
- Any
- Trial phase
- Phase 4
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Participants needed
- 294 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
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About This Trial
This proposal is relevant to the 240,000 cancer survivors who continue to use opioids long after they have successfully completed treatment for cancer at the VHA, placing them at risk of opioid addiction and overdose, and other opioid-related problems. Yet, there are no programs at the VHA to help them find alternatives to opioids, nor evidence to inform the choice of interventions. This study wil…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* Veterans must have had a qualifying solid tumor (bladder, breast, colorectal, head and neck, liver, lung, pancreas, prostate, or urinary tract) without evidence of active disease for at least 6 months
* Participants must be 6 months away from their last receipt of cytotoxic, r…
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