Melatonin Supplementation for Cancer-Related Fatigue in Patients With Early Stage Breast Cancer Receiving Radiotherapy: A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial.
Nitai D MukhopadhyayAdam KhorasanchiSudeep PandeySrinidhi NemaniGwendolyn ParkerXiaoyan DengDouglas W ArthurAlfredo UrdanetaEgidio Del FabbroPublished in: The oncologist (2023)
In this double-blind placebo-controlled phase III trial, melatonin did not prevent or significantly improve fatigue and other symptoms in patients with early stage breast cancer undergoing RT. The analysis, showing little evidence of an effect, at mid-recruitment, assured early termination of the trial.