Miracle Fruit Powder for the Treatment of Taste Alterations Secondary to Chemotherapy

Summary

Purpose and Objective: Compare the incidence of taste alteration in treatment vs. control arms and Compare weight loss in treatment vs. control arms

Timeline

Start

2008-08-18

Primary completion

2011-06-20

Completion

2011-06-20

Publications

• Results Griffin AM, Butow PN, Coates AS, Childs AM, Ellis PM, Dunn SM, Tattersall MH. On the receiving end. V: Patient perceptions of the side effects of cancer chemotherapy in 1993. Ann Oncol. 1996 Feb;7(2):189-95. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.annonc.a010548.
• Results Bernhardson BM, Tishelman C, Rutqvist LE. Self-reported taste and smell changes during cancer chemotherapy. Support Care Cancer. 2008 Mar;16(3):275-83. doi: 10.1007/s00520-007-0319-7. Epub 2007 Aug 21.
• Results Marin Caro MM, Laviano A, Pichard C. Impact of nutrition on quality of life during cancer. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2007 Jul;10(4):480-7. doi: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e3281e2c983.
• Results Wickham RS, Rehwaldt M, Kefer C, Shott S, Abbas K, Glynn-Tucker E, Potter C, Blendowski C. Taste changes experienced by patients receiving chemotherapy. Oncol Nurs Forum. 1999 May;26(4):697-706.
• Results Halyard MY, Jatoi A, Sloan JA, Bearden JD 3rd, Vora SA, Atherton PJ, Perez EA, Soori G, Zalduendo AC, Zhu A, Stella PJ, Loprinzi CL. Does zinc sulfate prevent therapy-induced taste alterations in head and neck cancer patients? Results of phase III double-blind, placebo-controlled trial from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (N01C4). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Apr 1;67(5):1318-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.10.046.
• Results Kurihara K, Beidler LM. Taste-modifying protein from miracle fruit. Science. 1968 Sep 20;161(3847):1241-3. doi: 10.1126/science.161.3847.1241.
• Results Brouwer JN, van der Wel H, Francke A, Henning GJ. Mieraculin, the sweetness-inducing protein from miracle fruit. Nature. 1968 Oct 26;220(5165):373-4. doi: 10.1038/220373a0. No abstract available.
• Results Yamamoto C, Nagai H, Takahashi K, Nakagawa S, Yamaguchi M, Tonoike M, Yamamoto T. Cortical representation of taste-modifying action of miracle fruit in humans. Neuroimage. 2006 Dec;33(4):1145-51. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.08.009. Epub 2006 Oct 3.
• Results Eton DT, Temple LM, Koffler K. Pilot validation of a self-report outcome measure of complementary and alternative medicine. Explore (NY). 2007 Nov-Dec;3(6):592-9. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2007.08.004.

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