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. 2022 Jul 8;27(14):4400. doi: 10.3390/molecules27144400

Table 1.

Details of curcumin clinical studies.

Number Status ID Phase Study Start Date Study Completion Date Sponsor Condition or Disease Number of Participants Intervention/Treatment Research Endpoint
1 Completed NCT00192842 2 Jul-04 Sep-10 Rambam Health Care Campus Advanced Pancreatic Cancer 17 Curcumin 8 g po qd (+gemcitabine) To assess the efficacy of the standard chemotherapy gemcitabine plus curcumin in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.
2 Completed NCT00094445 2 Nov-04 Apr-14 M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Advanced Pancreatic Cancer 50 Curcumin 8 g po qd for 22 weeks To learn if treatment with curcumin can help slow the growth of pancreatic cancers and to access the safety.
3 Completed NCT00113841 - Nov-04 Aug-09 M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Patients With Multiple Myeloma 42 Curcumin 2 g po bid (+Bioperine 5 mg po bid) To assess the Quality of life (QOL).
4 Completed NCT03211104 - Aug-07 Aug-15 Samsung Medical Center Patients With Prostate Cancer Undergoing Intermittent Androgen Deprivation Therapy 107 Curcumin 240 mg po tid for 6 month To assess whether curcumin influences the duration of treatment interruption and rate of prostatic specific antigen (PSA) progression.
5 Recruiting NCT00745134 2 Aug-08 Mar-23 M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Rectal Cancer 45 Curcumin po bid +(Radiation therapy and capecitabine) for 11.5 weeks To asscess if curcumin can make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy.
6 Completed NCT01160302 1 Jun-10 Jan-16 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Head and Neck Cancer 33 Microgranular Curcumin C3 Complex® 4 g po bid for 21–28 days To assess the adverse effects.
7 Completed NCT01333917 1 Nov-10 Jan-13 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill People with positive colonoscopy screening 40 Curcumin C3 4 g qd for 30 days To identify genes that are modified by curcumin that could be used as biomarkers in future chemoprevention studies, and also to evaluate the tolerability and toxicity.
8 Completed NCT01917890 - Mar-11 Oct-13 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Prostate Cancer 40 Curcumin or placebo (500 mg po qd for 7–8 weeks) To assess Progression free survival, Time to Disease Progression and Time to treatment failure.
9 Completed NCT01490996 2 Feb-12 May-17 University of Leicester Inoperable Colorectal Cancer 41 Curcumin C3 2 g po qd (+FOLFOX) To assess the safety, tolerability, efficacy(measured by response rate with RECIST and overall survival in months).
10 Completed NCT01740323 2 May-15 Jul-18 Emory University Chemotherapy-Treated Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy 30 Curcumin or placebo (500 mg po bid) To assess if curcumin reduces NF-kB DNA binding and its downstream mediator IL-6.
11 Completed NCT02439385 2 Aug-15 Aug-19 Gachon University Gil Medical Center Colorectal Cancer Patients With Unresectable Metastasis 44 Curcumin 100mg po bid (+Avastin/FOLFIRI) To assess Progression free survival, Overall survival rate, Overall response rate, safety and fatigue score.
12 Completed NCT02321293 1 Aug-15 Dec-16 Lady Davis Institute EGFR -Mutant Advanced NSCLC 20 Longvida® Optimized Curcumin 80 mg po qd (+Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor) last for 8 weeks To assess the safety and tolerability.
13 Recruiting NCT02724202 1 Mar-16 - Baylor Research Institute Colon Cancer 13 Curcumin 500 mg po bid for 2 weeks. (Patients will continue on curcumin at same dose for an additional 6 weeks while being treated with 3 cycles of 5-Fu) To test the safety, effects and find the Response Rate.
14 Completed NCT03072992 2 Mar-17 Jun-19 National Center of Oncology, Armenia Advanced Breast Cancer 150 Paclitaxel +(curcumin or placebo) (300 mg i.v. once weekly for 12 weeks.) To assess the adverse effects, Quality of life, Progression free survival, Time to Disease Progression, and Time to treatment failure.
15 Completed NCT03534024 - Aug-18 - National Nutrition and Food Technology Institute Metabolic Syndrome 50 Nanomicielle curcumin or placebo To determine the effects of nanomicelle curcumin on glycemic control, serum lipid profile, blood pressure and anthropometric measurements
16 Recruiting NCT03769766 3 Mar-19 - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Prostate Cancer 291 Curcumin or placebo (500 mg po bid) To assess the efficacy.
17 Recruiting NCT03980509 1 Jan-20 - Medical University of South Carolina Invasive Breast Cancer 20 Curcumin 500 mg po bid. (Curcumin will be given from the time surgical resection is scheduled until the night before surgical resection.) To determine whether curcumin causes biological changes in primary tumors of breast cancer patients.
18 Not yet recruiting NCT04294836 2 Dec-21 - Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Columbia Cervical Cancer 240 Cisplatin plus concomitant radiation therapy (teletherapy + high or low rate brachytherapy) + Curcugreen (BCM95) or placebo 2000 mg daily (each 6 h) To assess the efficacy and safety.