The Effect of Acupuncture on Cancer-Related Cognitive Difficulties

PHASE2Active, not recruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

270

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 6, 2021

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2026

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2026

Conditions
Breast Cancer
Interventions
PROCEDURE

Acupuncture

Each participant will receive 10 treatments of acupuncture (real or sham) over the course of 10 weeks (i.e. one treatment a week) with a +/- 14-day window.

PROCEDURE

Sham Acupuncture

Each participant will receive 10 treatments of acupuncture (real or sham) over the course of 10 weeks (i.e. one treatment a week) with a +/- 14-day window.

OTHER

Wait-List Control (WLC)

Patients in the WLC group will continue to receive their standard medical care as prescribed by their oncologists/primary care physicians.

OTHER

Questionnaires

Will follow patients for 26 weeks from baseline and collect assessments at baseline and Weeks 0, 10, and 26. Average time to complete the surveys is 30 minutes, which has been judged to be acceptable with minimal missing data; 20 minutes of these 30 minutes will be completed during the neurocognitive battery. Patients will complete PROs online using Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) or over the phone with the CRC. Biospecimens will be collected in person at assessment visits. The neurocognitive battery will be administered remotely.

Trial Locations (7)

10065

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

10604

Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Limited Protocol Activities), Harrison

11553

Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited Protocol Activities), Uniondale

11725

Memorial Sloan Kettering Suffolk- Commack (Limited Protocol Activities), Commack

07920

Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol activities), Basking Ridge

07748

Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited Protocol activities), Middletown

07645

Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities), Montvale

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

OTHER