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For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00080873




Registration number
NCT00080873
Ethics application status
Date submitted
7/04/2004
Date registered
8/04/2004
Date last updated
7/01/2016

Titles & IDs
Public title
Traumeel® S in Preventing and Treating Mucositis in Young Patients Undergoing Stem Cell Transplantation
Scientific title
A Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial to Assess the Efficacy of Traumeel® S (IND#66649) for the Prevention and Treatment of Mucositis in Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
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CDR0000356179
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ACCL0331
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
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Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Kidney Cancer 0 0
Leukemia 0 0
Lymphoma 0 0
Neuroblastoma 0 0
Oral Complications 0 0
Sarcoma 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lymphoma (non Hodgkin's lymphoma) - High grade lymphoma
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lymphoma (non Hodgkin's lymphoma) - Low grade lymphoma
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Leukaemia - Acute leukaemia
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Leukaemia - Chronic leukaemia
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Children's - Leukaemia & Lymphoma
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Neuroendocrine tumour (NET)
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Children's - Other
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Kidney

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Experimental: Receive Traumeel S -

Placebo comparator: Receive placebo -

Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
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Area under the curve (AUC) of the modified Walsh mucositis scale
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Two sample t test and the Wilcoxon sum test.
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Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Planned treatment with allogeneic or autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

* Conditioning chemotherapy regimen for transplantation must be myeloablative
* Source of stem cells from any of the following:

* Bone marrow
* Placental cord
* Cytokine-mobilized peripheral blood
* Availability of 1 of the following donor types:

* HLA-matched sibling or parent
* Related donor mismatched for a single HLA locus (class I or II)
* Unrelated marrow or peripheral blood stem cell donor
* Unrelated umbilical cord blood HLA-matched or mismatched (class I) donor

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

* 3 to 25

Performance status

* Not specified

Life expectancy

* Not specified

Hematopoietic

* Not specified

Hepatic

* Not specified

Renal

* Not specified

Other

* No known allergy to Echinacea
* Not pregnant or nursing
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

* See Disease Characteristics

Chemotherapy

* See Disease Characteristics

Endocrine therapy

* Not specified

Radiotherapy

* Not specified

Surgery

* Not specified

Other

* No concurrent oral vancomycin paste
* No concurrent oral glutamine supplementation
* No other mouth care or oral medications within 30 minutes after administration of study drugs
* No other concurrent treatment to prevent mouth sores
Minimum age
3 Years
Maximum age
25 Years
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria

Study design
Purpose of the study
Other
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Not applicable
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/04/2004
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/01/2011
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
195
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
NSW,WA
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Prince of Wales Private Hospital - Randwick
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Westmead Institute for Cancer Research at Westmead Hospital - Westmead
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Princess Margaret Hospital for Children - Perth
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2031 - Randwick
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2145 - Westmead
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6001 - Perth
Recruitment outside Australia
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Minnesota
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Ontario
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Quebec
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Israel
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Tel Hashomer

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
Children's Oncology Group
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Government body
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
RATIONALE: Traumeel® S (a mouth rinse) may be effective in preventing or decreasing the severity of oral mucositis caused by chemotherapy in young patients who are undergoing stem cell transplantation.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well Traumeel® S works in preventing or treating mucositis in young patients who are receiving chemotherapy with or without total-body irradiation before undergoing stem cell transplantation.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00080873
Trial related presentations / publications
Sencer SF, Zhou T, Freedman LS, Ives JA, Chen Z, Wall D, Nieder ML, Grupp SA, Yu LC, Sahdev I, Jonas WB, Wallace JD, Oberbaum M. Traumeel S in preventing and treating mucositis in young patients undergoing SCT: a report of the Children's Oncology Group. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2012 Nov;47(11):1409-14. doi: 10.1038/bmt.2012.30. Epub 2012 Apr 16.
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
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Susan F. Sencer, MD
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Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis
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Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00080873