Skin Sensitivity Acupuncture and Kinesiotherapy on Breast Cancer Patients Subject to Chemotherapy With Taxans — Acupuncture  

Chemotherapy Effect Clinical Trial

Official title: Skin Sensitivity Acupuncture and Kinesiotherapy on Breast Cancer Patients Subject to Chemotherapy With Taxans

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Objective: to compare different therapies employing acupuncture needles, silicon pellets and kinesiotherapy in breast cancer patients to taxane chemotherapy cycles. Methods:The present study will be carried out at the Oncomastology outpatient clinic of the UNIFESP (Federal University of São Paulo) Gynecology Department's Discipline of Mastology - Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM) and the Oncology Clinic Associated Center of Oncology, located at Rua Gabriel Monteiro da Silva, 454. randomized clinical trial will be conducted to define the treatment. Patients will be allocated into three groups (Group A: Stiper, Group B: Acupuncture, Group C: Kinesiotherapy and Group D After treatment ) who will receive treatment once a week for eight consecutive weeks. Group - S-observation.124 patients will be randomized in one of the three groups, after having signed the Free and Informed Consent Form and agreed to participate in the project, will respond to the evaluation form and will be submitted to physical examination. Patients will be evaluated in the first and tenth sessions. Keywords: Acupuncture, Breast Neoplasm, Chemotherapy.

Clinical Trial Description

Women will be recruited at the Oncomastology outpatient clinic of the UNIFESP (Federal University of São Paulo) Gynecology Department's Discipline of Mastology - Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM) and Clínica de Oncologistas Associados Centro Integrado de Oncologia, located at Rua Gabriel Monteiro da Silva, 454. Patients will consecutively be selected by order of entry in the chemotherapy recorded in the log and randomized in one of three intervention groups. Complying with all the research's ethical aspects, the following procedures will apply: 1st clarify the study's objectives;2nd sign the Term of Free and Informed Consent, signed in two ways, as one stays with the patient; 3rd espond to the evaluation form in the following items: socioeconomic aspects, main complaint, family history, personal history, surgical data, pathological anatomy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, sensitivity and perimetry;4 th physical exams. Completed the FACT-TAXANE questionnaire. Patients will be evaluated in the first and tenth sessions. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chemotherapy Effect
• Hypersensitivity

• NCT number: NCT03373032
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Federal University of São Paulo
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 20, 2017
• Completion date: April 30, 2023