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NCT06912763RecruitingPhase 2

Reversing External-beam Radiotherapy-associated Fibrosis Syndrome: an Interventional Bayesian Adaptive Randomized-controlled Orphan Drug Platform Trial for Orodental Sequelae (Reverse-fibrose)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 24 Jul 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

To find out if adding medication can help treat or prevent lymphedema and/or fibrosis related to radiation therapy, in survivors of head and neck cancer. Researchers will compare these drugs to find the most effective therapy for preventing or limiting these side effects.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
250 (estimated)
First submitted
24 Mar 2025
Start date
8 Aug 2025
Primary completion date
31 Jul 2030
Lead sponsor
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
NCT number
NCT06912763

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Planned participants: 250
  • From 8 Aug 2025 to the primary completion date, 31 Jul 2030
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Participants who are receiving any other investigational agents.

Other illness

  • Active liver disease (Child-Pugh class B-C), cirrhosis, nor active alcoholism.
  • History of myopathy/rhabdomyolysis.
  • History of acute myocardial infarction or severe coronary disease.
  • History of diabetes mellitus.
  • Allergy/hypersensitivity to Hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG Co-A) reductase inhibitor and/or xanthine derivatives, e.g., caffeine, theophylline, theobromine.
  • History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to statins, hemorheologic agents or other agents used in study
  • Participants with psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.

Other

  • Pregnant/post-menopausal, or male.
  • Contraindications for MRI Subject to the discretion of the treating physician and Principal Investigator (PI), as the MRI may be optional

Criteria the registry did not label

  • Eligibility Criteria Eligibility criteria (observational registry or randomization)
  • Prior history of head and neck cancer with no active disease.
  • Treated previously with radiotherapy with prescribed dose (greater or equal to 30Gy) to unilateral or bilateral neck(s)
  • Detectable CTC-AE G2+ lymphedema/fibrosis at \>6 months post-radiotherapy.
  • No active liver disease (Child-Pugh class B-C), cirrhosis, nor active alcoholism, nor history of ulcers.
  • No history of myopathy/rhabdomyolysis.
  • Creatinine clearance \<30mL/min.
  • No history of acute myocardial infarction or severe coronary disease.
  • Non-pregnant/post-menopausal, or male.
  • No history of diabetes mellitus
  • Allergy/hypersensitivity to HMG Co-A reductase inhibitor and/or xanthine derivatives, e.g., caffeine, theophylline, theobromine
  • No contraindications for magnetic resonance imaging a Subject to the discretion of the treating physician and Principal Investigator (PI), as the MRI may be optional

Sex: Female · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
MD Anderson Cancer Center
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HoustonUnited StatesRecruiting

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