Study of Noni in Cancer Patients

Neoplasms Clinical Trial

Official title:

Phase I Study of Noni in Cancer Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00033878
• Other study ID #: R21AT000896-01
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: April 11, 2002
• Last updated: March 27, 2007
• Start date: November 2001
• Est. completion date: June 2006

Study information

• Verified date: March 2007
• Source: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this Phase 1 study is to: 1. determine the maximum tolerated dose of capsules containing 500mg of freeze dried noni fruit extract, 2. define toxicities associated with the ingestion of noni, 3. collect preliminary information on the efficacy of noni in respect to anti-tumor and symptom control properties to help select specific patients for subsequent Phase 2 studies, 4. identify chemical constituents of the extract that can be used to characterize the bioavailability and pharmacokinetics of noni food supplement.

Description:

This Phase I study of noni in cancer patients represents a first step in the systematic study of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practices that draw on Asian and Pacific Island cultural traditions of healing to control cancer and its related symptoms. Noni, extracted from Morinda citifolia or the Indian mulberry plant, is included in the traditional pharmacopoeias of Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders and Asian populations, and has been used to treat various diseases for hundreds of years. It is now commonly taken by cancer patients based on purported usefulness in the disease although there is little scientific evidence to either support or refute these claims. A large marketing enterprise and at least eleven different suppliers supports the food supplement's popularity. The broad long range objectives which this study will initiate are to define the usefulness of noni extracts for cancer patients. The hypothesis to be tested is that noni at a specified dosing provides cancer patients with a sufficient benefit to toxicity profile to be useful as a therapeutic. Specific aims of this study are: 1. Determine the maximum tolerated dose of capsules containing 500mg of freeze-dried noni fruit extract. 2. Define toxicities associated with the ingestion of noni. 3. Collect preliminary information on the efficacy of noni in respect to anti-tumor and symptom control properties to help select specific patients for subsequent Phase II studies. 4. Identify chemical constituents of the extract that can be used to characterize the bioavailability and pharmacokinetics of noni food supplement.

Other known NCT identifiers

• NCT00060060

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: June 2006
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Patients must:

• Have a pathologically or cytologically verified diagnosis of cancer and evidence of disease for which no standard treatment is available;

• Be ambulatory, capable of self care, and up and about more than 50% of waking hours;

• Have completed all other cancer treatments at least four weeks previously;

• Have been on any medications considered by their physician to be essential to their health (e.g. lipid lowering, antidiabetic , antihypertensive) at consistent dosing at least four weeks prior to starting noni;

• Agree to take no other CAM treatments while taking noni and agree to keep a diary, recording all medications taken daily, including all non prescription products and to record the time that noni is taken.

Study Design

Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Neoplasm Metastasis
• Neoplasms

Intervention

Drug:
• Noni Extract

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Hawaii, Cancer Research Center	Honolulu	Hawaii

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,