Prevention of oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy by a polyamine-reduced diet-NEUROXAPOL: protocol of a prospective, randomised, controlled, single-blind and monocentric trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Oxaliplatin remains the most widely used chemotherapeutic agent for treating advanced colorectal cancer but its efficacy is hampered by dose-limiting neurotoxicity manifested by a painful polyneuropathy. Oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy (OIPN) is characterised by acute and transient cold hyperaesthesia in the hours and days following oxaliplatin infusion (>90% of patients), but also by retarded chronic neuropathy due to the repetition of chemotherapy cycles (30-50% of patients). OIPN impairs the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients and no preventive or curative strategies have as yet proven effective. A polyamine-reduced diet (PRD) has recently demonstrated its efficacy to prevent OIPN in animals without adverse effects.

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SUBMITTER: Balayssac D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4390686 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature