Outcomes in Ovarian Cancer and Fallopian Tube Cancer Patients Using Complementary Alternative Medicine

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

RATIONALE: Chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel and carboplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Hypnosis, massage therapy, and healing touch may improve the quality of life of patients who are undergoing chemotherapy.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well giving hypnosis, massage therapy and healing touch changes outcomes in women receiving chemotherapy for newly diagnosed epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cavity cancer.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
• Collaborator: Randy Shaver Cancer Research Fund
• Treatments: Taxane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Newly diagnosed epithelial ovarian, primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer, any pathologic type or stage, who will receive 6 cycles of chemotherapy.

• Patients must have signed an informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous cancer other than skin cancer

• Previous chemotherapy experience

• Active substance abuse

• Schizophrenia

• Pregnant or lactating