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Clinical trialNCT00726830TerminatedInterventional

Methadone, Morphine, or Oxycodone in Treating Pain in Patients With Cancer

SponsorM.D. Anderson Cancer CenterEnrollment1Brain and Central Nervous System TumorsChronic Myeloproliferative DisordersLeukemiaLymphomaLymphoproliferative DisorderMultiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm+5 more conditions
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

RATIONALE: Methadone, morphine, or oxycodone may help relieve pain caused by cancer. It is not yet known whether methadone is more effective than morphine or oxycodone in treating pain in patients with cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying methadone to see how well it works compared with morphine or oxycodone in treating pain in patients with cancer.
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Investigators

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Sites

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

United States
  • Palmetto Hematology Oncology, Pc at Gibbs Regional Cancer Center

    Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

  • M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at University of Texas

    Houston, Texas, United States

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Drugs studied

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

Methadone →Morphine →Oxycodone →
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Registration & key dates

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

Start
31 Mar 2009
Primary completion
30 Sept 2010
Completion
31 Oct 2010
Last update posted
24 Sept 2020
Registered enrollment
1
Registry id
NCT00726830
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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.