Study pain testing in cancer patients and healthy volunteers
Part of Pain clinical trials.
This trial uses controlled, short-term pain testing (a “pain study”) to better understand how pain works during and after certain cancer treatments. It may help researchers improve how cancer therapy pain is measured and managed.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You must be an adult (18 years or older).
- You must understand the study and be able to sign consent.
- If you have cancer treatment–related pain, it must be linked to specific medicines or radiation (such as taxanes, vinca alkaloids, bortezomib, thalidomide, platinum drugs, or ionizing radiation).
- If you do not yet have pain, you must be starting chemotherapy with those same medicines.
- There must be an existing “QST” (pain sensitivity testing) record in a well-established database for your situation.
- If you are a healthy control volunteer, you must agree to participate and sign consent.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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