DEPART - Seeking cancer patients with nerve pain

Who can take part?

• People with cancer aged 18 and over
• People with nerve pain
• People taking regular opioid medications (eg. oxycodone, codeine) that do not improve the nerve pain sufficiently
• People who do not have chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
• People who have not taken pregabalin or duloxetine for at least two weeks
• People who do not take escitalopram, fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline, venlafaxine, desvenlafaxine or moclobemide.

What is involved for you?

• Taking study medication twice a day for three weeks
• Face-to-face visits each week.
• Blood test at the initial visit and after two weeks
• Medical assessments and questionnaires at each face-to-face visit
• Completing a daily diary at home

Trial Dates

This trial is accepting participants until March 2025.