Clinical trial · Interventional
Oral Cancer Screening in Mumbai, India by Primary Health Care Workers
Comparing the Test Characteristics of Three Oral Cancer Screening Techniques:1)Unaided Visual Examination 2)VelScope Examination and 3)Toluidine Blue Application, by Trained Primary Health Care Workers in Mumbai, India.
NCT00655421CI-TRIAL-00002426unknownPhase 3ClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
A feasibility study to compare the test characteristics of three different oral cancer screening techniques performed by trained primary health care workers:1)Unaided Visual Inspection, 2)VelScope Assisted Examination, and 3) Examination after application of Toluidine Blue dye.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Cancer | Malignant Lip and Oral Cavity Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.80 |
| Precancerous Conditions | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (3)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toluidine Blue Assisted Oral Examination | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Unaided Visual Inspection | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| VelScope | Device | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (3)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Unaided
- description
- Unaided Visual Inspection of the Oral Cavity
- interventionNames
- Other: Unaided Visual Inspection
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- VelScope
- description
- VelScope assisted examination of the oral cavity
- interventionNames
- Device: VelScope
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Toluidine
- description
- Examination of oral cavity after the local application of Toluidine Blue dye
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Male
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * The study participants will be apparently healthy males with tobacco habit ( present tobacco users and those who have quit within past six months), * above 18 years of age, * attending Preventive Oncology clinic. Exclusion Criteria: * Participants with frank oral cancers will not be recruited in the study.
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