# Acupuncture for Post-Thoracotomy Pain

> **NCT00142532** · PHASE3 · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center** · enrollment: 162 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Lung Cancer
- Pain

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Acupuncture and Questionnaires
- **PROCEDURE:** Placebo Acupuncture, Questionnaires

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00142532
- **Lead sponsor:** Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE3
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2005-06
- **Primary completion:** 2008-01
- **Final completion:** 2008-01
- **Target enrollment:** 162 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2009-01-14


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00142532

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00142532, "Acupuncture for Post-Thoracotomy Pain". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-17 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00142532. Licensed CC0.

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