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Diseases / Stomatitis

Stomatitis

Disease

Stomatitis is inflammation of the oral mucosa involving tissues of the mouth or lips. It may arise from infection, irritants, trauma, medications, systemic disease, or cancer therapy and can cause painful oral lesions.

Trials
288
Recruiting
29
Completed
148
With results
35

Last revised

Pipeline

Phase by status

PhaseRecruitingNot yetBy invitationActiveCompletedTerminatedWithdrawnUnknownTotal
Early Phase 1 31 4
Phase 1 1121 14
Phase 1/2 1213 7
Phase 2 7213386315 75
Phase 2/3 1613 11
Phase 3 31121316 36
Phase 4 26114 14
Not applicable 14141152518 105
Unknown 2118217 22

Trials started per year

2021
5
2022
25
2023
32
2024
13
2025
16
2026
24

Conditions studied, by phase

ConditionEarly Phase 1Phase 1Phase 1/2Phase 2Phase 2/3Phase 3Phase 4Not applicableUnknownTotal
Stomatitis 41477511361410522 288
Head and Neck Neoplasms 134181102295 73
Mucositis 211635385 43
Neoplasms 111635111 29
Ulcer 19384 25
Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck 225121 13
Pain 21162 12
Oral Ulcer 113123 11
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma 1621 10
Mouth Neoplasms 135 9

Most active sponsors

#SponsorTrialsPhase 3
1Cairo University83
2Swedish Orphan Biovitrum72
3Ain Shams University61
4Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Brazil62
5University of Pavia50
6Galera Therapeutics, Inc.41
7M.D. Anderson Cancer Center40
8Sun Yat-sen University41
9Amgen33
10Chang Gung Memorial Hospital30

Most studied interventions

#InterventionTrials
1Low-Level Light Therapy22
2Fibroblast Growth Factor 712
3Cisplatin7
4Sodium Bicarbonate7
5Cryotherapy6
6Laser Therapy6
7Propolis6
8Saline Solution6
9Standard of Care6
10Benzydamine5

Evidence

Results reported
23.6%35 of 148 completed
Published
15.5%23 of 148 completed
Primary endpoint met
18.8%3 of 16 analyses
Median months to report
23

Documents disclosed

Protocol available
22
Statistical analysis plan
20
PubMed citations
167

Trial profile

Median enrollment
60
Median duration
23.1months
Countries
41
Study sites
1248

Who is enrolled

Adults
274
Children
63
Older adults
241
Healthy volunteers
29

Median enrollment by phase

Early Phase 1
57
Phase 1
26
Phase 1/2
84
Phase 2
77
Phase 2/3
70
Phase 3
101
Phase 4
72
Not applicable
53
Unknown
60

Where trials run

United States
78
Egypt
24
China
23
Italy
17
France
16
Turkey (Türkiye)
16
Brazil
13
Germany
12
Spain
11
Taiwan
8

Busiest cities

#CityCountryTrials
1CairoEgypt17
2New YorkUnited States13
3PhiladelphiaUnited States13
4MilwaukeeUnited States12
5ChicagoUnited States11
6ColumbusUnited States11
7DetroitUnited States11
8GuangzhouChina10
9ShreveportUnited States10
10CharlestonUnited States9

Terminations

Terminated
19
Withdrawn
8
Stopped for recruitment
2.4%7 of 288 trials

Stated reasons

Other / unclear
12
Recruitment
7
Lack of efficacy
3
Funding
3
COVID-19
2

Reasons are grouped from the sponsor's own wording with a rule-based classifier; the original text is shown below.

Recently stopped

TrialStatusStated reasonStopped
NCT06708702 Withdrawn Withdrawn The study was terminated due to difficulties in including patients because of the slow rate at which patients met the established treatment profile at the proposing institution. 2026-01-07
NCT05104268 Withdrawn Withdrawn Unable to recruit due to the relatively infrequent occurrence of oral mucositis. No participants enrolled 2025-12-31
NCT05331131 Withdrawn Withdrawn Study team not moving forward with protocol 2025-11-14
NCT03461354 Terminated Terminated Interim analysis indicated study closure 2024-04-01
NCT04648020 Terminated Terminated Interim Analysis did not meet the pre-defined threshold for efficacy of a 15% absolute difference in SOM prevention between Validive and placebo. 2023-05-14
NCT04110977 Terminated Terminated After the planned interim analysis, the study was terminated. The start of the trial was delayed due to data protection issues and the Covid-19 pandemic. Moreover, accrual was slower than expected. Finally, funding has expired. 2022-12-05
NCT03843554 Terminated Terminated Study was terminated with 50% enrollment by the sponsor due to under enrollment into specific diverse racial, ethnic, and sex/gender categories. https://grants.nih.gov/policy/inclusion/women-and-minorities.htm 2022-08-03
NCT04321850 Terminated Terminated Health restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-07-30
NCT03234465 Terminated Terminated No efficacy could be demonstrated, sponsor decided to prematurely end the study. 2020-07-13
NCT02589860 Withdrawn Withdrawn No accrual 2020-03-23

Trial records