Pilot Study of Metformin in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer and Its Effects on Stromal-epithelial Metabolic Uncoupling
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Official title
Pilot Study of Metformin in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer and Its Effects on Stromal-epithelial Metabolic Uncoupling.
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of metformin in tumor metabolism in patients with head and neck cancer by evaluating metformin's ability to decrease TOMM20 expression in squamous carcinoma cells and decrease MCT4 expression in fibroblasts.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02083692
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Early Phase 1
- Enrollment
- 50 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 5, 2013 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- May 9, 2016 (Actual)
- Completion
- Apr 6, 2017 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- May 15, 2025
2013 – 2017
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19107 | — |
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- Last update posted May 15, 2025 · Synced Oct 2, 2026
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