Multicomponent nutritional supplement Oncoxin and its influence on quality of life and therapy toxicity in patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy.

Multicomponent nutritional supplement Oncoxin and its influence on quality of life and therapy toxicity in patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. Oncol Lett. 2019 Nov;18(5):5644-5652 Authors: Kaidarova DR, Kopp MV, Pokrovsky VS, Dzhugashvili M, Akimzhanova ZM, Abdrakhmanov RZ, Babich EN, Bilan EV, Byakhov AV, Gurov SN, Koroleva IA, Mochalova AS, Povaga SS, Raigorodsky MV, Saifullin AS, Sanz E, Petrovskiy FI Abstract Treatment of cancer often requires the use of adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT). In real clinical practice, numerous patients suffer from severe toxicity and reduced quality of life (QoL). Hence, there is a need to maintain QoL and to reduce therapy toxicity to comply with recommended chemotherapy (CT) regimens. The present study focused on the effects of the multi-component nutritional supplement Oncoxin (ONCX) on QoL and CT-induced toxicity in patients undergoing ACT. A total of 133 patients aged 50-70 years with gastric cancer IIB-IIIC or non-small cell lung cancer IIB-IIIA were enrolled in the present study: 84 received ONCX, and 49 were included in the control arm and received CT only. It was identified that after 2 weeks of treatment the patients receiving ONCX exhibited clinically meaningful improvement of QoL (measured by Edmonton Symptom Assessment System Questionnaire) compared with those in the control group (odds ratio, 2.07; 95% CI, 1.00-4.29). By the end of a 3 week-period, the albumin level was higher in patie...
Source: Oncology Letters - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Oncol Lett Source Type: research