Acupuncture for Cancer Related Pai
- Conditions
- Cancer related painCancer - Any cancer
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12620000325909
- Lead Sponsor
- Western Sydney University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 106
•Age 18 years old or older.
•A diagnostic certificate of CRP provided by an oncologist of Liverpool hospital, regardless of the cancer type, stage or the presence of metastasis.
•Included types of pain: somatic nociceptive pain, visceral nociceptive pain, neuropathic pain and mixed types of pain.
•Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) score > 3.
•Cognitive ability to give consent.
•Presence of skin infection that potentially interferes with the needling (intervention) area.
•Presence of thrombocytopenia, fever or active infection.
•Inability to remain supine position for 40 minutes continuously, given the nature of the acupuncture intervention.
•Estimated survival time less than or equal to 12 weeks.
•Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) score less than or equal to 3.
•Pregnant woman.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method