Acupressure in Preventing Nausea and Vomiting in Young Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy

Launched by WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · Mar 29, 2006

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OBJECTIVES:

* Determine the feasibility of implementing an acupressure therapy for the prevention of chemotherapy-associated nausea in children with cancer.
* Test the hypothesis that acupressure bands will prevent chemotherapy-associated nausea and vomiting in children, when compared to placebo acupressure (wrist bands without acupressure).
* Develop a competitive grant application for a large, multi-institutional randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of acupressure in preventing chemotherapy-associated nausea in children.

OUTLINE: This is a prospective, randomized, placebo-control...

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Eligibility criteria

• DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
• • Patients must receive in-patient primary oncology care at least monthly at Brenner Children's Hospital
• • Patients may have any type of cancer
• * Must be receiving at least 1 of the following chemotherapy agents as an inpatient:
• • An alkylating agent (e.g., cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, or ifosfamide)
• • An antitumor antibiotic (e.g., doxorubicin, daunomycin, dactinomycin, or mitoxantrone)
• • High-dose cytarabine
• PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
• • Patient's primary caregiver must speak English
• PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
• • See Disease Characteristics

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