Taste Dysfunction clinical trials at UCSF
1 research study open to eligible people
Trouble tasting is when food or drinks don't taste the way they should. UCSF is looking for head and neck cancer patients who have undergone radiation treatment to take part in a clinical trial. The trial explores how miraculin affects taste dysfunction in such cancer patients.
Taste Dysfunction With Miraculin in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy
open to eligible people ages 18 years and up
Patients diagnosed with head and neck cancer who receive radiation therapy with and without chemotherapy develop altered sense of taste due to treatment effect, which typically arises in the second week of radiation therapy and progresses throughout the course of treatment. While some symptoms such as pain, mucositis, and xerostomia can be managed with pain medications and saliva replacements, taste alteration has an earlier onset and is a more difficult symptom to readily address and intervene upon. There are no effective established interventions for taste, although this is a major issue in the patient experience. The investigator will be examining they hypothesis that a miracle fruit cube would yield the greatest benefit to improve taste dysfunction in the beginning half of radiation treatment when taste function is decreased but not absent.
San Francisco, California
Our lead scientists for Taste Dysfunction research studies include Sue Yom, MD, PhD.
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