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Effect of venlafaxine for hot flash

Hot Flash Treatment for Women with Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Safety and Efficacy of Venlafaxine - HOFLA-V

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
JPRN
Registry ID
JPRN-jRCTs031220435
Enrollment
20
Registered
2022-11-04
Start date
2022-12-13
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-06-29

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

breast cancer

Interventions

Administration of venlafaxine once a day for 4 weeks. At the first week, patients record hot flash diary . At the second week, venlafaxine is administrated in dose of 37.5mg once a day. At the third

Sponsors

Bando Hiroko
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
Female

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: (1) Patients aged between 18 and 60 at the time of consent (2) Patients with stage 1-3C primary breast cancer (3) Patients receiving tamoxifen for the adjuvant therapy with or without LH-RHagonists (4) Patients with more than 14 hot flushes per week (5) Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status 0 or 1 (6) Patients who have agreed in writing to participate in this study after understanding this study an d who can adequately answer patient questionnaires.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: (1) Patients diagnosed with depression (2) Patients undergoing treatment for thyroid disease (3) eGFR less than 15 mL/min or dialysis patients (4) Patients with severe liver dysfunction: Bilirubin total is over 2mg/dl or AST or ALT is over 100 U/L (5) Patients using the following drugs. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor:SSRI, Serotonin Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitor:SNRI(except for venlafaxine), Strong or moderate CYP2D6 inhibitor, CYP3A inhibitors and CYP3A inducers, gabapentinoids, MAO inhibitors (6) Patients who had allergic reaction to venlafaxine (7) Other patients that the research doctor deems inappropriate

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Rate of change in hot flash score from baseline to week 4 of venlafaxine administration

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
(1) QOL assessment by Hot Flash Related Daily Interference Scale (HFRDIS) (2) QOL assessment by EORTC QLQ-C30 (3) Depression assessment by Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) (4) Sleeping disorder assessment by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI) (5) Plasma levels of tamoxifen, N-desmethyl tamoxifen, endoxiefen, 4-Hydroxytamoxifen (6) Association between hot flash score and plasma levels of venlafaxine (7) Association between cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) genetic polymorphism and plasma levels of venlafaxine (8) Completion rate for venlafaxine (9) Continuity status of venlafaxine after the study (10) Questionnaire survey about venlafaxine (11) Adverse events of CTCAE ver 5.0 grading scale

Contacts

Public ContactRiko Sato

University of Tsukuba Hospital

s2230386@s.tsukuba.ac.jp+81-29-853-3341

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026