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Questions To Ask Your Health Care Provider

• What are my treatment options?
• Are there any supplements that I can take to help me prevent or treat my cancer? 
• I'm taking herbal or dietary supplements, will these interfere with my treatment?
• I'm taking herbal or dietary supplements, are any of these harmal?
• I am having treatment side effects, are there any natural therapies that I can try? 
• Can you refer me to an integrative medicine expert?

Open Clinical Trials

The following studies are looking at integrative medical care for people diagnosed with cancer.

Multiple cancer types

• NCT04917796: The Effect of Electroacupuncture on Nerve Pain Caused by Chemotherapy (Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy. The purpose of this study is to learn if Electroacupuncture can improve peripheral neuropathy pain caused by chemotherapy in cancer survivors. 

Breast cancer

• NCT04837820: Effect of Acupuncture on Memory and Thinking Difficulties after Breast Cancer. The purpose of this study is to test whether acupuncture can improve cognitive difficulties and insomnia in survivors of breast cancer. 

Gynecologic cancer

• NCT05053230: A Study Evaluating the Integrative Medicine at Home (IM@HOME) Program in People With Gynecologic Cancer. This study will look at whether the Integrative Medicine at Home (IM@Home) program can help reduce patients' symptoms (such as tiredness, pain, or insomnia). The IM@Home program offers virtual (online rather than in-person) group classes focusing on mind-body practice.
• NCT04533763: LIVING WELL: A Web-Based Program to Improve Quality of Life in Ovarian Cancer Survivors. LIVING WELL is a free research program offering mindfulness, coping, and healthy lifestyle skills for ovarian cancer survivors. 

Prostate cancer

• NCT04519879: White Button Mushroom Sup for the Reduction of PSA in Pts With Biochemically Rec or Therapy Naive Fav Risk Prostate Cancer. This phase II trial studies how well white button mushroom supplement works in reducing prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in patients with prostate cancer that has come back (recurrent) or has favorable risk and has not undergone any therapy (therapy naive). 

 

The following are studies focused on nutrition and cancer prevention. 

Breast cancer

• NCT03448003: Comprehensive Lifestyle Change To Prevent Breast Cancer. This trial looks at how well lifestyle changes work to prevent breast cancer. Premenopausal women 18 years and older with intact breasts and ovaries are eligible.

Colorectal cancer

• NCT05396846: My Best GI Eating Study. This study will test three different diets in people who are overweight and who have an increased risk of colorectal cancer. 
• NCT04192071: Virtual Human Delivered Nutrition Module for Colorectal Cancer Prevention. This study will develop and test an interactive nutrition module for use with colorectal cancer screening to learn which messages and graphics promote understanding of cancer risk and promote screening.

Visit our Featured Research Page and Research Search and Enroll Tool to find additional studies enrolling people with or at high risk for cancer.

The following studies are looking at management of side effects: 

Multiple cancers

• NCT02296450: Quality of Life (QoL) Assessment in Cancer Patients and Survivors With Dermatologic Conditions Using Dermatologic QoL Instruments. This large study is designed to see how skin conditions that are related to different kinds of cancer or cancer treatments affect a patient's overall well-being. 
• NCT05056077: Tools to be Fit. This is a quality of life study for people with bladder, breast, colon, endometrial, kidney (renal cell carcinoma), ovarian, prostate, or rectal cancer to figure out what tools work best for helping cancer survivors improve their diet and exercise.
• NCT03996265: Bupropion in Reducing Cancer Related Fatigue in Cancer Survivors. This will study how well the drug bupropion (welbutrin) reduces cancer-related fatigue in cancer survivors.

Breast cancer

• NCT04621721: Physical Activity at Home for Relief from Neuropathy Caused by Taxanes in People with Breast Cancer. This study will look at the effects of gain and balance training and resistance exercise (using bands) on gait, balance, and lower extremity muscle strength after a 16-week home-based exercise program compared to educational materials without an exercise program.
• NCT04586530: Telehealth and Memory Study (TAMS). The overall purpose of this trial is to confirm the effectiveness of Memory and Attention Adaptation Training (a cognitive-behavioral therapy) as a treatment for chemotherapy-related cognitive dysfunction among breast cancer survivors.
• NCT02290834: Chemotherapy-induced cognitive and brain changes in older adults with breast cancer. The study will investigate cognitive abilities and brain images before and after chemotherapy to identify people at risk for cognitive side effects and to better understand the effects of treatment on brain structure and function.
• NCT04906200: Web-Based Symptom Monitoring and Self-Management Portal for Adolescent and Young Adult Breast Cancer Survivors.  This compares a web-based patient-reported symptom-monitoring and self-management portal to standard therapy in young breast cancer survivors. 
• NCT04837820: The Effect of Acupuncture on Cancer-Related Cognitive Difficulties. This study will test whether acupuncture can improve thinking and insomnia in breast cancer survivors. This study will also look at insomnia's link to cognitive difficulties.
• NCT03879629: TrAstuzumab Cardiomyopathy Therapeutic Intervention With Carvedilol (TACTIC). Breast cancer patients receiving Herceptin or other HER2-directed therapy are at risk of heart damage. This study is looking at whether beta-blocker drugs could help prevent this from happening.   

Colorectal cancer

• NCT05239338: Preserving Fertility After Colorectal Cancer Study (PREFACE). The PREFACE Study is a study of reproductive health and clinical outcomes among individuals diagnosed with colorectal cancer between age 18 to 49 years.
• NCT06420726: Resistance Exercise and Creatine in Colorectal Cancer. This study aims to assess the feasibilty of combining creatine supplementation with resistance training versus resistance training alone in colorectal cancer survivors. 

Ovarian cancer

• NCT04533763: Living WELL: A Web-Based Program for Ovarian Cancer Survivors. This studies a group-based and web-delivered tool for ovarian cancer survivors in increasing quality of life and decreasing stress, depressive mood, anxiety, and fatigue across a 12-month period.
• NCT05047926: Prehabilitation for Advanced Ovarian Cancer Patients. Prehabilitation may improve peri-operative outcomes in patients undergoing cancer surgery. This study will look at structured activity for women undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy to improve their physical state prior to surgical intervention and thus improve outcomes.

Prostate cancer

• NCT03971591: Men Moving Forward: A Lifestyle Program for African-American Prostate Cancer Survivors (MMF).  This study will look at Men Moving Forward (MMF), a community-based lifestyle intervention that supports adherence to nutrition and physical activity guidelines to promote improved body composition and lessen the side effects of treatment.
• NCT05155501: Pelvic Fascia spARing Radical Prostatectomy TrIAL (PARTIAL).  This clinical trial is studying whether pelvic fascia-sparing radical prostatectomy has similar cancer control and sexual function outcomes; and significantly better urinary function, less penile deformity and inguinal hernia risks as compared to radical prostatectomy.