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Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports 3/2013

01-03-2013 | Cancer Pain (DA Marcus, Section Editor)

Acupuncture for Cancer Pain and Related Symptoms

Authors: Weidong Lu, David S. Rosenthal

Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports | Issue 3/2013

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Abstract

Cancer pain is one of most prevalent symptoms in patients with cancer. Acupuncture and related techniques have been suggested for the management of cancer pain. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for adult cancer pain recommends acupuncture, as one of several integrative interventions, in conjunction with pharmacologic intervention as needed. This review presents the latest available evidence regarding the use of acupuncture for cancer pain. It also provides “actionable” acupuncture protocols for specific cancer pain conditions and related symptoms in order to provide more clinically relevant solutions for clinicians and cancer patients with pain. These conditions include postoperative cancer pain, postoperative nausea and vomiting, postsurgical gastroparesis syndrome, opioid-induced constipation, opioid-induced pruritus, chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, aromatase inhibitor-associated joint pain, and neck dissection-related pain and dysfunction.
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Metadata
Title
Acupuncture for Cancer Pain and Related Symptoms
Authors
Weidong Lu
David S. Rosenthal
Publication date
01-03-2013
Publisher
Current Science Inc.
Published in
Current Pain and Headache Reports / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1531-3433
Electronic ISSN: 1534-3081
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-013-0321-3

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