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Most cancer patients experience multiple symptoms related to chemotherapy and use CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) as an adjunct to conventional treatment. Moxibustion is traditional Korean medical therapeutic method and uses the heat generated by burning herbal preparations containing Artemisia vulgaris to stimulated acupoint.
Herein, the investigators propose an open-label pilot study investigating the effectiveness of moxibustion stimulation at abdominal acupoint on quality of life in cancer patients under chemotherapy.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moxibustion | Experimental | A series of moxibustion sessions within six weeks from baseline with adjuvant chemotherapy. |
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| Waiting | No Intervention | Participants who will be allocated to waitlist will receive no moxibustion treatments throughout the 6 weeks while receiving adjuvant chemotherapy |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moxibustion | Other | In the moxibustion treatment group, 3 moxibustion, 3 acupoints(CV12, CV8, CV54) will be heated with indirected moxibustion. The moxibustion will be removed when the patient feel hotness and require remove them |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: General (FACT-G) | change from baseline to 6 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Body mass index | change from baseline to 6 weeks | |
| immune function | lymphocyte panel(CD3,4,8,19,26), WBC, Differential count | change from baseline to 6 weeks |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyun Jung Jung, KMD, Ph. D | Contact | +82537702082 | koreancarmen@gmail.com |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deagu Hanny University Medical center | Deagu | 704-123 | South Korea |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21054851 | Background | Lee MS, Kang JW, Ernst E. Does moxibustion work? An overview of systematic reviews. BMC Res Notes. 2010 Nov 5;3:284. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-284. | |
| 20374659 | Background | Lee MS, Choi TY, Park JE, Lee SS, Ernst E. Moxibustion for cancer care: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Cancer. 2010 Apr 7;10:130. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-130. |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D009369 | Neoplasms |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D009071 | Moxibustion |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D015670 | Acupuncture Therapy |
| D000529 | Complementary Therapies |
| D013812 | Therapeutics |
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| M.D, Anderson symptom Inventory (MDASI) | change from baseline to 6 weeks |