Status:
COMPLETED
Improving Fatigue: A Pilot Study of Acupuncture and Patient Education for Breast Cancer Survivors
Lead Sponsor:
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Collaborating Sponsors:
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Conditions:
Fatigue
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Based on the investigators clinical experience in patients with chronic disease (Hui, Hui, and Johnston, 2006; Hays et al 2005), a review of the literature (Johnston, Xiao and Hui 2007), and inspired ...
Detailed Description
Patients will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups. Our hypothesis is that patients in the acupuncture/education group will experience greater relief of fatigue than those in the standard car...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patient is between 18 and 65 years of age
- Patient has a rounded Brief Fatigue Inventory score of 4 or greater
- Patient is in a stable clinical condition
Exclusion
- Severe anemia (hemoglobin level less than 9 g/dL, hematocrit level less than 30, decline in hemoglobin of 2 g/dL in the previous month, or active treatment for anemia)
- Karnofsky Performance Status below 70
- Acupuncture treatment in the previous 6 months
- Fatigue before cancer diagnosis
- Patient is mentally incapacitated or unfit to provide informed consent or participate in an interview
- Patient has the potential for serious bleeding due to inherited diseases such as hemophilia
- Patient is taking medications that are either fatigue-inducing or have sedating properties
- Patient is unavailable by telephone
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
12 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00646633
Start Date
March 1 2008
End Date
October 1 2009
Last Update
July 7 2016
Active Locations (1)
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UCLA Center for East-West Medicine
Santa Monica, California, United States, 90404