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The clinical effect of an electric massage chair on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in cancer patients: randomized phase II cross-over trial

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Neoplasms
Registration Number
KCT0008200
Lead Sponsor
Korea University Anam Hospital
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
68
Inclusion Criteria

20 years old or older
-Patients with histologically confirmed solid tumors
-Patients receiving chemotherapy for the first time in their lives
-Patients who are planned to receive HEC/MEC as defined in the NCCN guideline 2019-2020
-ECOG PS 0-2 - defined as having appropriate cardiac and renal function as follows:
a. Hemoglobin = 8.0 g/dL
b. Absolute neutrophil count = 1.0 x 10^9/L
c. Platelet count = 75 x 10^9/L
d. Serum bilirubin = 1.5 x ULN
e. AST/ALT = 2.5 x ULN
f. Creatinine clearance calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula > 50 mL/min

Exclusion Criteria

-Patients with disseminated/extensive bone metastasis
-Patients with serious musculoskeletal diseases or peripheral vascular diseases as determined by the investigator
-Patients receiving anticoagulants or antiplatelet drugs
-Patients currently using a massager at home
-Patients who have undergone major surgery or experienced serious trauma within 2 weeks prior to the study
-Participants who use medications that may pose a risk to the participant or interfere with study results, or have medical/psychiatric/social disorders
-Patients with medical conditions that may increase the risk or interfere with the interpretation of study results according to the investigator's judgement or abnormal laboratory test results in the testing room.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional Study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
INVR
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
complete response rate;EORTC-QLQ-C30
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