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Impact on Quality of Life by Moxibustion in Chemotherapy for Cancer

NCT02261571 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2014-10-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Most cancer patients experience multiple symptoms related to chemotherapy and use CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) as an adjunct to conventional treatment. Moxibustion is traditional Korean medical therapeutic method and uses the heat generated by burning herbal preparations containing Artemisia vulgaris to stimulated acupoint.

Herein, the investigators propose an open-label pilot study investigating the effectiveness of moxibustion stimulation at abdominal acupoint on quality of life in cancer patients under chemotherapy.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Moxibustion

In the moxibustion treatment group, 3 moxibustion, 3 acupoints(CV12, CV8, CV54) will be heated with indirected moxibustion. The moxibustion will be removed when the patient feel hotness and require remove them

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Comprehensive and Integrative Medicine Institute of South Korea

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-31
Primary Completion
2015-09-30
Completion
2015-09-30

Countries

  • South Korea

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