Acupuncture in Treating Women With Stage I, Stage II, or Stage III Breast Cancer With Aromatase Inhibitor-Related Joint Pain

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Breast Cancer, Recurrent Breast Cancer, Stage I Breast Cancer, Stage II Breast Cancer, Stage IIIA Breast Cancer, Stage IIIB Breast Cancer, Stage IIIC Breast Cancer

In brief

RATIONALE: Acupuncture may help relieve moderate or severe joint pain caused by aromatase inhibitors. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying acupuncture in treating women with stage I, stage II, or stage III breast cancer with aromatase inhibitor-related joint pain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01013337

Run by

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

People needed

76

Starts

2009-05-01

Expected to finish

2016-04-21

Last updated by the study team

2020-04-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Abramson Cancer Center of The University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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