Acupuncture for Mucositis Pain in Cancer Care

Withdrawn before enrolling · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Mucositis, Pain, Leukemia

In brief

This research is being done to see if acupuncture helps relieve mucositis pain in patients with leukemia who are undergoing chemotherapy. Many patients receiving chemotherapy develop mucositis (painful sores or blisters in the mouth or throat). Mucositis is not only a frequent complication in cancer care and extremely painful, but also increases the risks of infection and malnutrition and often leads to discontinuing or delaying the chemotherapy treatments.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00549835

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

0

Starts

2007-08-01

Expected to finish

2009-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Newly diagnosed with leukemia (such as acute myelogenous leukemia) and receiving chemotherapy for induction, consolidation or re-induction or high dose preparative regimen for bone marrow transplantation in the Johns Hopkins Oncology Inpatient Services
• Participation in standard leukemia-treatment regimens
• Expectation of survival of three weeks for completion of the study

You may not qualify if…

• Acupuncture treatment within the previous 6 weeks
• Unable to achieve platelet count of at least 10,000 with platelet support
• Radiation therapy within one month of enrollment
• Pregnant women
• History of substance abuse, including alcohol and IV drug users

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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