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Acupuncture on Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy

NCT03626220 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2025-01-20

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Summary

Peripheral neuropathy is currently the second most common side effect after chemotherapy, second only to the side effects of blood toxicity. A variety of chemotherapy drugs may induce peripheral neurotoxicity and cause by the cumulative dose of chemotherapy drugs. Symptoms include sensory paresthesia, feeling dullness or numbness, glove-like feeling distributed in the palm. The currently most effective way is to interrupt the treatment or adjust the dose of chemotherapeutic drugs, but it is easy to make patients discontinue chemotherapy. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of acupuncture on neurological symptoms and quality of life. Three kinds of questionnaires will be used:(1) Brief pain inventory- short form to assess the extent of pain, and the impact of daily life. (2) the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy/ Gynecologic Oncology Group- Neurotoxicity(FACT/GOG-NTX)-13 (Version 4) to assess changes in neurological symptoms; (3) World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale-(WHOQOL-BREF) to assess changes in the quality of life of patients. The course of treatment was evaluated for nine weeks. Changes in neurological function and quality of life will be evaluated before treatment, the third week of treatment, the sixth week of treatment, till the ninth week. The aim of this study is to confirm that acupuncture can improve peripheral neuropathy after chemotherapy, in order to enhance breast cancer patients' quality of life, and provide the new opportunity for integrative therapy between Chinese and Western medicine.

Keywords：acupuncture , chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

Conditions

  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Breast Cancer
  • Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy
  • Acupuncture

Interventions

OTHER

acupuncture

More than five years of experienced certified acupuncturists performed all treatments using the study protocol and administered to all participants. The acupoints selection principle was based on the Bi syndrome(the impediment disease) recorded in the Huangdi's Internal Classic, the Traditional Chinese medicine literature. Disposable sterile stainless steel needles (CASOON, Wuxi Jiajian Medical Instrument Company, Limited., Jiangsu, China) with 0.3mm in diameter and 40mm in length, were inserted into the prespecified acupoints

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • China Medical University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chien-Chen Huang, M.S. · An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-27
Primary Completion
2020-10-10
Completion
2020-10-10

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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