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Electro-acupuncture for Breast Cancer

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Led By Dawn L Hershman, MD, MS
Research Sponsored by Columbia University
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up baseline, 16 weeks
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Study Summary

This study seeks to determine if 12 weeks of weekly electro-acupuncture will prevent or decrease neuropathic pain in breast cancer patients receiving 12 weekly treatments of taxane treatment.

Eligible Conditions
  • Neuropathy
  • Breast Cancer

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~baseline, 16 weeks
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and baseline, 16 weeks for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Change in Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form Score
Secondary outcome measures
Change in FACT-TAX Score

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Placebo Group
Group I: Electro-acupunctureExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Subjects will receive 45 minute sessions scheduled once a week for 12 weeks with electro-acupuncture.
Group II: Sham acupuncturePlacebo Group1 Intervention
Subjects will receive 45 minute sessions scheduled once a week for 12 weeks with sham acupuncture.
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Electro-acupuncture
2012
Completed Phase 1
~150

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Columbia UniversityLead Sponsor
1,433 Previous Clinical Trials
2,447,196 Total Patients Enrolled
28 Trials studying Breast Cancer
23,576 Patients Enrolled for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Research FoundationOTHER
69 Previous Clinical Trials
137,704 Total Patients Enrolled
41 Trials studying Breast Cancer
130,414 Patients Enrolled for Breast Cancer
Dawn L Hershman, MD, MSPrincipal InvestigatorColumbia University

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Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Electro-acupuncture for the Prevention of Taxane Induced Myalgias and Neuropathy
Dawn L. Hershman 2010. "Electro-acupuncture for the Prevention of Taxane Induced Myalgias and Neuropathy". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01163682.
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