Clinical trialNCT00365261CompletedPhase 4Interventional

Effect of Eszopiclone on Sleep Disturbance and Pain in Cancer

SponsorUniversity of California, San DiegoEnrollment45Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

View the registry record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

To assess the effectiveness of Lunesta on cancer patients who have received chemotherapy and who require patient controlled analgesia (PCA), specifically to assess whether Lunesta will: * improve sleep thereby decreasing need for opiates via PCA * improve sleep thereby decreasing pain by self report * improve sleep thereby decreasing fatigue by self report

clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Joel E Dimsdale, MD
UCSD
Principal Investigator
clinicaltrials.gov ↗

A profile link is shown only when the registered name resolves to a person record with a confident, namesake-checked match; ambiguous names stay unlinked.

Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Ucsd Thornton Hospital
La Jolla, California, United States

Site investigator names are published by ClinicalTrials.gov only while a study recruits, so completed studies list sites without them.

Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Eszopiclone →Placebo

Linked drugs open the directory filtered to KOLs working with them.clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 30 Sept 2006
Primary completion: 31 Dec 2009
Completion: 31 Dec 2009
Last update posted: 11 Jul 2016
Registered enrollment: 45
Registry id: NCT00365261

clinicaltrials.gov ↗

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.