Insulin Treatment in Cancer Cachexia

Phase 4 Completed 135 enrolled Göteborg University Medical Research Council · collab Swedish Cancer Foundation · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The study is designed to evaluate whether daily insulin treatment to weight losing cancer patients attenuates progression of cancer cachexia and improves metabolism.

Timeline

Start: 2000-01
Primary completion: —
Completion: 2005-09

Publications

Wallengren O, Bosaeus I, Lundholm K. Dietary energy density, inflammation and energy balance in palliative care cancer patients. Clin Nutr. 2013 Feb;32(1):88-92. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2012.05.023. Epub 2012 Jun 23.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Insulatard	Protein / enzyme biologic	—	—

Indications

No indication recorded.