Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:39 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:39 PM
NCT ID:
NCT06200168
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Aged 18 years or older and aged 75 years or younger, of any nationality;
2. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0-2;
3. Patients with breast cancer, with no restrictions on molecular typing; early-stage patients must not have undergone prior chemotherapy, while advanced-stage patients must be candidates for first-line chemotherapy and have declined neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy for over 3 months. All patients must receive highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC) based on anthracycline chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide (EC or AC) or carboplatin (AUC≥4)/cisplatin;
4. Predicted life expectancy of ≥3 months;
5. Adequate bone marrow, kidney, and liver function;
6. Adequate contraception if premenopausal women;
7. Written informed consent by the patient before enrolment.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Patients already submitted to chemotherapy;
2. Is scheduled to receive any non-HEC on Day 1;
3. Is scheduled to receive any chemotherapy on days 2-4 after HEC;
4. Received or is scheduled to receive radiation therapy to the abdomen, pelvis, head and neck within 1 week prior to Day 1 or between Days 1 to 5 in cycle 1;
5. Has symptomatic primary or metastatic symptomatic central nervous system malignancy causing nausea and/or vomiting;
6. Have ongoing emesis or CTCAE grade 2 or greater nausea;
7. Significant medical or mental conditions;
8. Any allergies to study drug, antiemetics or dexamethasone;
9. Significantly abnormal laboratory values (platelets, coagulation indexes, absolute neutrophils, AST, ALT, bilirubin or creatinine);
10. Patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding;
11. Inflammatory skin reaction;
12. Has lymphedema in acupuncture stimulation area;
13. Patients who are afraid of electroacupuncture stimulation or allergic to stainless steel needles;
14. Received acupuncture treatments for any conditions less than 4 weeks before HEC;
15. Currently using drugs with antiemetic activity (e.g., 5-HT3 receptor antagonists, corticosteroids (except when used at physiological doses), dopamine receptor antagonists, minor tranquilizers, antihistamines, and benzodiazepines (except for nocturnal sedation));
16. Patients with concomitant severe diseases or with a predisposition to emesis such as gastrointestinal obstruction, active peptic ulcer, and hypercalcemia and symptomatic brain metastasis;
17. Has a convulsive disorder requiring anticonvulsant treatment;
18. Patients administered thioridazine as a chronic antipsychotic medication (patients are allowed to receive prochlorperazine and other phenothiazines as a rescue antiemetic treatment);
19. Concurrent treatment with quinolone antibiotics;
20. Has a history of chronic alcoholism (determined by the investigator);
21. Known arrhythmias, uncontrolled congestive heart failure, or acute myocardial infarction within the past six months;
22. Has a history of uncontrolled diabetes (e.g., using insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents).
Healthy Volunteers:
True
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
75 Years
Study:
NCT06200168
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT06200168