Efficacy of thermostatic moxibustion for the patients with cancer-related fatigue in colon cancer: a randomized controlled trial
- Conditions
- colon cancer
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2200006041
- Lead Sponsor
- Third Affiliated People's Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
(1)Male or female aged from 40 to 75 years old;
(2)Had undergone radical?operation?for?carcinoma?of?colon and was in the chemotherapy stage. The operation and chemotherapy regimen was not limited;
(3)Fulfilment of the diagnostic criteria for CRF of the international classification of diseases, tenth revision clinical modification (ICD-10);
(4)The physical condition was according to Karnofsky (KPS) score of 60 or more;
(5)Willingness to participate in the trial and having provided written consent.
(1)Those who have participated in any other clinical trials to mitigate CRF except this trial;
(2)Patients with skin lesions and damaged skin at the site of operation;
(3)Complicated with severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases;
(4)Allergic to moxa, patients with allergic respiratory diseases;
(5)Patients with inability to cooperate with mental illness;
(6)Patients with fatigue-related diseases (hypothyroidism, severe anemia, autoimmune disease, abnormal liver or kidney function test (aspartate aminotransferase or alanine aminotransferase =2 x upper limit of normal or creatinine=2.0 mg/dL));
(7) An estimated life expectancy of six months or less.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The Chinese version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI-C);
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method aboratory examination;TCM syndrome scores;The Fuzhou version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-fuzhou);Adverse events;EORTC QLQ-C30;