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Table 5 Planned/ongoing trials registered in clinicaltrials.gov and ISRCTN databases

From: Dietary restriction during the treatment of cancer: results of a systematic scoping review

Trial Registration

Trial design

Participants (target recruitment number and type of cancer)

Primary outcomes

Planned start and end dates

Ketogenic Diets

 NCT03285152

Feasibility RCT

30 Endometrial

No. of patients that complete the study

Aug 2017- Aug 2019

 NCT02983942

Pilot RCT

50 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

No. and incidence of treatment related AEs

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019

 SRCTN71665562

Pilot RCT

12 Glioblastoma

Retention rate

Jul 2016 – June 2019

 NCT02302235

RCT

42 Glioblastoma

1. Survival time

2. Time to progression (MRI assessed)

3. Incidence of AEs

Feb 2014 – Dec 2018

 NCT01754350

RCT

50 Glioblastoma

Progression-free-survival rates 6 months after reirradiation

May 2013 – June 2018

 NCT03278249

Feasibility trial (single arm)

30 Glioblastoma

Ketosis (measured by serum BHB)

Sep 2017 – Jan 2021

 NCT01865162

Pilot trial (single arm)

6 Glioblastoma

Safety evaluation

Jan 2013 – Jan 2019

 NCT01535911

Pilot trial (single arm)

16 Glioblastoma

Brain tumour size response (MRI assessed)

Apr 2012 – June 2019

 NCT03451799

Clinical trial (single arm)

Glioblastoma

Safety assessed by weight loss and AEs

Apr 2018 – Sep 2020

 NCT02964806

Crossover trial

30 Pancreaticobiliary Cancer

Diet intake rate

Nov 2016 – Oct 2017

 NCT02939378

Non-randomised trial (2 arms)

60 Glioblastoma

No. of participants with AEs

Oct 2016 – Dec 2018

 NCT03535701

Non-randomised trial (2 arms)

15 Breast

1. Adherence

2. Change in psychosocial measures

3. Change in physiologic outcomes

Oct 2017 – Aug 2019

 NCT03194516

Observational

12 Prostate

Weight loss at 8 weeks

June 2017 – May 2021

Short-term Fast

 SRCTN17994717

Feasibility RCT

30 Colorectal

Adherence, recruitment, retention and data completion rates

Acceptability and tolerability

Oct 2017 – Apr 2021

Fasting Mimicking Diets

 NCT02126449

RCT

250 Breast

1. Rate of grade 3/4 toxicity

2. Rate of pCR

Feb 2014 – Dec 2019

 NCT03700437

RCT

40 Lung

Effect of diet on circulating tumour cells

Oct 2018 – Dec 2020

 NCT03340935

Feasibility trial (single arm)

85 Any cancer

AEs

Feb 2017 – June 2018

 NCT03595540

Pilot trial (single arm)

60 Breast and colorectal

1. % diet consumed

2. Diet related AEs

Nov 2017 – Sep 2020

 NCT03454282

Clinical trial (single arm)

100 Breast and melanoma

Change in peripheral blood mononuclear cell

May 2018 – Dec 2020

Intermittent Fasts

 NCT03162289

RCT

150 Breast

Change in FACT-G Quality of Life score

May 2017 – May 2022

 NCT02710721

RCT

60 Prostate

Change in FACT-P Quality of Life score

April 2016 – Dec 2019

Ketogenic Diet combined with Short-Term Fast

 NCT02286167

Clinical trial (single arm)

25 Glioblastoma Multiforme

Dietary adherence rates

Nov 2014 – April 2019

  1. Abbreviations: AE Adverse Events, BHB Beta-hydroxybutyrate, MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pCR Pathological Complete Response, RCT Randomised Controlled Trial