NCT01895010

Acupoint Electric Stimulation Combined With Tropisetron in Preventing and Treating Nausea and Vomiting After TACE

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Fudan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Observation on acupoint electric stimulation combined with tropisetron in preventing and treating nausea and vomiting and improving the patient's appetite after TACE for primary or metastatic liver cancer patients.

Detailed description

* Classification of nausea and vomiting, as measured by NCI CTC-AE version 3 * The improvement of appetite, as measure by the classification of Appetite in accordance with NCI CTC-AE version 3. * Quality of life: use M. D. Anderson symptom scale (the m. d. Anderson Symptom Inventory,MDASI)

Conditions

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Metastatic Liver Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	acupoint electric stimulation	acupoint electric stimulation combined with tropisetron 6mg before TACE
DRUG	tropisetron	only tropisetron 6mg before TACE

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2013-07-10
• Last updated: 2013-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China