CompletedPhase 1 / Phase 2

Ketamine or Placebo in Patients With Major Depression and Advanced Cancer

NCT04471818 · KODIAC · Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia de Mexico

Closed to entry

Status

Not accepting participants

Phase 1 / Phase 2

Phase

Target enrolment

Study sites

Outside the US

What it is testing

Summary

Major depression (MD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by a persistent feeling of sadness, anhedonia or a decreased perception of pleasurable experiences, as well as appetite alterations and weight variations, sleep disorders, altered psychomotor skills, fatigue, guilt, decreased self-worth, suicidal thoughts and difficulty concentrating in a task (1). MD is a frequent complication in patients who are diagnosed with advanced cancer.

Summary as written by the trial’s own sponsor and published on ClinicalTrials.gov API v2. It is the sponsor’s description, reproduced unedited, not an assessment by this site.

What counts as success

Primary outcome measures

Brief Edinburg Depression Scale (BEDS) score
Measured over 3 weeks

A trial succeeds or fails on its primary outcome, declared in advance. Everything else it reports is secondary by definition.

Who can take part

Eligibility, as published

18 Years to 65 Years

Ages

All

Sex

Not accepted

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age: 18 to 65 years of age 2. Sex: Male or female 3. Major depressive disorder (MDD) diagnosis as per Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). 4. Palliative stage cancer diagnosis (advanced-disease stage) 5. Who can read and write in spanish 6. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0-2 7. Karnofsky ≥ 50 8. Palliative prognostic index A 9. Not currently undergoing systemic oncologic treatment 10. Patients who agree to participate in the study by signing an informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Comorbidities including other psychiatric diseases (additional to MDD, generalized anxiety or panic disorder). 2. Magnetic resonance or computerized tomography with major structural alterations. 3. Pregnant or breastfeeding women. 4. Patients with hypersensitivity to ketamine 5. Cardiac insufficiency 6. Patients with a history of psychosis 7. Patients with first-degree relatives with a history of psychosis 8. Patients with uncontrolled glaucoma 9. Current neurological illness

Where

1 study site

Facility	City	Region	Country
Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan)	Mexico City	—	Mexico

On the registry

Contact the trial directly

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NCT04471818 on ClinicalTrials.gov →

Last updated in the registry 2023-09-28. Registry records change; this page reflects the data build of 2026-08-25.

Where this trial sits

Substance

Ketamine

Indication