Haelan and Nutrition in Cancer Patients

Summary

Primary: * To determine if treatment with Haelan (fermented soy product) can decrease the severity of poor appetite measured using a visual analog scale (VAS) of 0 to 100 mm (0 mm = best, 100 mm = worst) at week 4 +/- 5 days. * To determine if treatment with Haelan can decrease the severity of nausea, fatigue, and improve patients' overall sense of well being measured using a VAS of 0 to 100 mm (0 mm = best, 100 mm = worst) at week 4 +/- 5 days. * To determine if treatment with Haelan can increase patient's calorie intake, albumin, pre-albumin, anthropometric measure, lean body mass (measured by bio-impedence analysis), and weight at week 4+/- 5 days. * To determine if treatment with Haelan can decrease patient's Functional assessment of anorexia/cachexia therapy subscales or (FAACT) and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy with fatigue subscales (FACIT-F) at week 4+/- 5 days. * To assess the feasibility of accrual, and adherence to the Haelan consumption. Secondary: * Determine the plasma isoflavone activity, 12-MTA and 13-MTA of these patients. * Correlate the biologic modulation of peripheral blood lymphocyte NF-kB by Haelan with primary outcome in these patients. * To determine if treatment with Haelan can increase patient's functional status at week 4+/- 5 days.

Timeline

Start

2007-10

Primary completion

2009-08

Completion

2009-08

Outcome

Outcome not reported

Stopped (Enrollment): “Study terminated due to low recruitment.”

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.