Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:03 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:03 PM
NCT ID:
NCT04042935
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Provision to sign and date the consent form.
2. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and be available for the duration of the study.
3. Be a male or female aged 18-100.
4. Histologically or cytologically confirmed stage II-IVB HNSCC of the oral cavity, hypopharynx, oropharynx, larynx, or nasopharynx.
5. Ability to take medication orally or per feeding tube and be willing to adhere to the medication regimen.
6. Patients who are deemed appropriate for definitive, adjuvant, or palliative radiation with total planned dose \> 30 Gy.
7. Patients who are deemed appropriate for concurrent systemic therapy with radiation including cisplatin (100 mg/m2 triweekly or 30-40 mg/m2 weekly), carboplatin (AUC 1-2 weekly) +/- paclitaxel (30 mg/m2 weekly) or cetuximab (400 mg/m2 loading followed by 250 mg/m2 weekly.
a. The final 3 patients in the dose expansion group undergoing the PK/PD study must be deemed appropriate for cisplatin.
8. For females of reproductive potential: use of highly effective contraception including hormonal contraceptives, intrauterine devices (IUD), vasectomy, tubal ligation, and double barrier methods (combination of male condom, female condom, cervical cap, diaphragm, contraceptive sponge).
9. For males of reproductive potential: use of condoms.
10. ECOG performance status ≤ 2.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Participation in another clinical study with an investigational product during the last 30 days.
2. Concurrent enrollment in another clinical study, unless it is an observational (non-interventional) clinical study, a clinical study not involving pharmaceutical or radiation techniques, or during the follow-up period of an interventional study.
3. Women who are pregnant or lactating. Patients of reproductive potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 72 hours of start of study drug.
4. Patients who are currently taking gabapentin, pregabalin, amitriptyline, nortriptyline, or duloxetine.
5. Known allergy or hyposensitivity to alpha lipoic acid.
6. Judgement by the investigator that the patient is unsuitable to participate in the study and the patient in unlikely to comply with study procedures, restrictions, and requirements.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
100 Years
Study:
NCT04042935
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT04042935