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TableĀ 1 Baseline Characteristics for Patients in the True Acupuncture and Sham Acupuncture Groups

From: Efficacy of acupuncture in the prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in patients with advanced cancer: a multi-center, single-blind, randomized, sham-controlled clinical research

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No. (%)

P value

True acupuncture group (nā€‰=ā€‰68)

Sham aupuncture group (nā€‰=ā€‰66)

Age, median (95% CI)

60 (56.84ā€‰~ā€‰60.48)

58 (54.99ā€‰~ā€‰60.04)

0.653

Gender

Ā Ā 

0.725

Male

14 (20.6)

12 (18.2)

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Female

54 (79.4)

54 (81.8)

Study site

Ā Ā 

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Beijing hospital of traditional Chinese medicine

22 (16.4)

22 (16.4)

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Guangā€™ anmen hospital

9 (6.7)

9 (6.7)

Beijing friendship hospital

19 (14.2)

16 (11.9)

Beijing shijitan hospital

18 (13.4)

19 (14.2)

TumorĀ pathologicalĀ type

Ā Ā 

0.830

Breast cancer

37 (54.4)

35 (53.0)

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Ovarian malignant carcinoma

8 (11.8)

8 (12.1)

Cervical carcinoma

1 (1.5)

0 (0.0)

Endometrial carcinoma

2 (2.9)

2 (3.0)

Lung cancer

20 (29.4)

21 (31.8)

Cancer stage

Ā Ā 

0.301

I

12 (17.6)

17 (25.8)

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II

18 (26.5)

16 (24.2)

III

12 (17.6)

11 (16.7)

IV

26 (38.2)

21 (31.8)

Prior chemotherapy

33 (48.5)

30 (45.5)

0.721

Chemotherapy regimen contains

Cis-platinum

28 (41.1)

17 (25.8)

0.059

Anthracycline

14 (20.6)

19 (28.8)

0.271

Taxane

32 (47.0)

38 (57.6)

0.223

  1. CI confidence interval
  2. *P values are based on independent-samples t-tests comparing differences between groups in age and whether or not before chemotherapy, P values in the study site, pathological tumor type, cancer stage, and chemotherapy regimen are based on Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and other P values are based on Ļ‡2 tests