Patient-reported outcomes in women with breast cancer enrolled in a dual-center, double-blind, randomized controlled trial assessing the effect of acupuncture in reducing aromatase inhibitor-induced musculoskeletal symptoms

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 381-389

  Bao, Ting ^a   Cai, Ling ^a   Snyder, Claire ^b   Betts, Kelly ^a   Tarpinian, Karineh ^b   Gould, Jeff ^b   Jeter, Stacie ^b   Medeiros, Michelle ^a   Chumsri, Saranya ^a   Bardia, Aditya ^b,c   Tan, Ming ^a,d   Singh, Harvinder ^a   Tkaczuk, Katherin H R ^a   Stearns, Vered ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acupuncture; aromatase inhibitor; musculoskeletal symptoms; patient reported outcomes

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOT FLASH DAILY DIARY; HOT FLASH RELATED DAILY INTERFERENCE SCALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NATIONAL SURGICAL ADJUVANT BREAST AND BOWEL PROJECT MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMN QUESTIONNAIRE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUPUNCTURE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYMPTOMS; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BONE DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84892910530     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28352     Document Type: Article

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