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Stimulation of Auricular Acupuncture-Point for Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea/Vomiting

NCT00360841 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 103

Last updated 2012-12-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate auricular acupuncture as an antiemetic treatment compared with sham acupuncture and with no acupuncture in patients receiving moderately-high to highly emetogenic chemotherapy. Acupuncture constitutes a nonpharmacological intervention for chemotherapy-induced nausea/vomiting (CINV). Chinese medicine holds that stimulating select points both on the body and the ear, that lie along meridians or life channels, can relieve diseases.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Auricular acupuncture

Subjects will be randomized to one of these arms. The subjects in arm A and B will receive auricular acupuncture. Before subjects receive chemotherapy within one day, they will be treated by auricular acupuncture, sham acupuncture, or control group.

PROCEDURE

Sham auricular acupuncture

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chih-Hsin Yang, PhD · Deparment of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-06-30
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-07-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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