Clinical trial · Interventional
Adjuvant Acupuncture Care for Breast Cancer Patients Experiencing Side Effects From Chemotherapy
Adjuvant Acupuncture Care for Breast Cancer Patients Experiencing Side Effects From Chemotherapy. A Randomised Controlled Pilot and Feasibility Study
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Why stopped (as posted): Difficult to recruit participants
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Breast cancer patients report many symptoms while undergoing conventional care, including nausea/vomiting, fatigue, pain, depression and anxiety. Existing interventions to address these common side effects of treatment are limited. Patients diagnosed with cancer frequently seek complementary medicine (CAM), and there is a need to investigate potential effects of CAM therapies. This phased pilot and feasibility study has two aims: 1. Develop an acupuncture treatment protocol for adjuvant acupuncture care for breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy using structured interviews with established acupuncture teams in Norway. 2. Implement the treatment protocol in a pilot study to evaluate outcome measures, effect sizes and acceptability of acupuncture care delivered alongside conventional care. Study results will support the design of future research; including a Phase III randomised controlled trial.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer | Malignant Breast Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acupuncture therapy | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- acupuncture therapy
- description
- Breast cancer patients are randomised to additional 12 acupuncture treatment sessions while undergoing standard chemotherapy
- interventionNames
- Procedure: Acupuncture therapy
- type
- OTHER
- label
- Usual care
- description
- Control group (usual care) receives standard chemotherapy alone
- interventionNames
- Procedure: Acupuncture therapy
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Fatigue scale
- timeFrame
- Weeks 16 and 29
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Females, 18 years or older with early stage breast cancer, no previous chemotherapy and no metastatic disease Exclusion Criteria: * Needle phobia, use of anticoagulant drugs, inability to comply with study regimen
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