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Adjunctive Effect of Acupuncture for Advanced Cancer Patients With Palliative Care: a Three-arm Randomized Trial

NCT04398875 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2020-05-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The proposed study aims to evaluate the adjunctive effect of MA with standard care (ASC) for relieving cancer-related symptoms in a collaborative model of palliative care compared to sham MA plus standard care (SSC) or standard care alone (SC).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Acupuncture and standard care (ASC)

A semi-standardized treatment protocol and standard care will be employed.

OTHER

Sham acupuncture and standard care (SSC)

Validated non-insertion sham acupuncture (Streitberger sham acupuncture) and standard care will be applied.

OTHER

Standard care (SC)

Standard care will be employed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Haiyong CHEN, PhD · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-09-01
Primary Completion
2023-03-31
Completion
2023-08-31

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