Improving Fatigue: A Pilot Study of Acupuncture and Patient Education for Breast Cancer Survivors

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Conditions studied: Fatigue

In brief

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 by Vickers and colleagues (PMID: 15117996), the investigators carry out a pilot study that investigates if acupuncture combined with patient education will relieve fatigue in patients who have completed primary treatment for breast cancer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00646633

Run by

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

People needed

12

Starts

2008-03-01

Expected to finish

2009-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-07-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• 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

Where it is running

• UCLA Center for East-West Medicine — Santa Monica, California, United States

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