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Acupuncture or Self-Acupuncture in Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue in Women Who Have Received Chemotherapy for Stage I, Stage II, or Stage IIIA Breast Cancer

NCT00957112 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 320

Last updated 2013-08-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

RATIONALE: Acupuncture may help relieve fatigue caused by breast cancer. It is not yet known whether acupuncture is more effective than self-acupuncture in managing fatigue in women with breast cancer.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying acupuncture to see how well it works compared with self-acupuncture in managing cancer-related fatigue in women who have received chemotherapy for stage I, stage II, or stage IIIA breast cancer.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

acupuncture therapy

Patients undergo therapist-acupuncture with or without self-acupuncture

PROCEDURE

standard follow-up care

Patients receive standard care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Manchester

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alex Molassiotis, MD · University of Manchester

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-10-31
Completion
2013-02-28

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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