A Clinical Study to Compare BupiZenge With Lidocaine for Pain Due to Oral Mucositis in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer.

Most patients who receive radiation therapy for head and neck cancer develop painful sores in the mouth called oral mucositis. For many of them, these sores are severe and result in debilitating pain. The sores usually start in the third week of radiation and last aboutfive weeks, often continuing for two weeks after treatment ends. Current pain treatments, for instance lidocaine solution, only give short-lasting pain relief. BupiZenge is a lozenge that dissolves slowly in the mouth and contains bupivacaine. Bupivacaine is a long-acting pain-relieving medicine and has been safely used for many years for both children and adults, and its safety profile is well understood. The BupiZenge lozenge is designed to give longer and more reliable pain relief for patients with mucositis in their mouth. This study will check if BupiZenge works better to reduce pain than lidocaine, and if better pain control improves quality of life and reduces the need for strong pain medicines like opioids. The main goal is to see how much mouth pain decreases after taking BupiZenge compared to lidocaine. This is measured by asking the patients to rate their pain score on a scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst possible pain). This is done at different time-points, from before the dose until three hours after dose on the last day of radiotherapy. The study will include 150 adults, both women and men, aged 18 to 80 years, who have head and neck cancer and are scheduled to receive radiotherapy, with or …

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