NCT04560712

Acupuncture for the Management of Postoperative Pain in Patients With Pancreatic or Colorectal Cancer Undergoing Surgery

Integrating Acupuncture Into Postoperative Pain Management in Patients Undergoing Open Abdominal Operations

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This trial investigates how well acupuncture works for the management of pain after surgery in patients having open colorectal or pancreatic surgery. Acupuncture may help to reduce postoperative symptoms including pain. This study may help researchers learn if acupuncture reduces after-surgery side effects and improves recovery.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. Determine the feasibility of providing postoperative acupuncture for patients undergoing open colorectal or pancreatic surgery. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: I. Compare postoperative opioid use for pain management, pain levels, and satisfaction of pain control between acupuncture and standard care groups. EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVE: I. Compare dietary recovery and postoperative length of stay between acupuncture and standard care groups. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms. ARM I (ACUPUNCTURE): Beginning the day after surgery, patients undergo acupuncture sessions over 25 minutes once daily (QD) for up to 7 days. Patients also undergo usual care including preoperative visits to the primary surgical team, anesthesia preoperative evaluation, referrals to other specialties for perioperative evaluation and optimization of comorbid conditions if necessary, surgical operations, postoperative hospitalization, and post-discharge clinic visits. ARM II (USUAL CARE): Patients undergo usual care including preoperative visits to the primary surgical team, anesthesia preoperative evaluation, referrals to other specialties for perioperative evaluation and optimization of comorbid conditions if necessary, surgical operations, postoperative hospitalization, and post-discharge clinic visits.

Conditions

• Resectable Colorectal Carcinoma
• Resectable Digestive System Carcinoma
• Resectable Pancreatic Carcinoma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Acupuncture Therapy	Undergo acupuncture
OTHER	Best Practice	Undergo usual care
OTHER	Questionnaire Administration	Ancillary studies

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-12
• Primary completion: 2027-12-31
• Completion: 2027-12-31
• First posted: 2020-09-23
• Last updated: 2025-12-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study