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Evidence suggests Acupuncture maydecreaseCancer.
22 studies (28 claims)
Moderate consensus
Study Claims
| Intervention | Direction | Endpoint | Type | Population | Dosage | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acupuncture and/or acupressure | Decreases - was significantly associated with reduced | cancer pain | Human | patients with cancer pain | Not specified | Clinical Evidence for Association of Acupuncture and Acupressure With Improved Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.cited 238× |
| acupuncture combined with opioid analgesics | No effect - is superior to | managing lung cancer-related pain | Human | patients | Not specified | Acupuncture combined with opioid for treatment of lung cancer-related pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis. |
| chemotherapy synergized with acupuncture and moxibustion | Decreases - can suppress | cancer | Human | — | Not specified | Research progress of acupuncture and moxibustion for the enhanced synergism of chemotherapy.cited 1× |
| true acupuncture (TA) | Increases - higher scores | Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General scores | Human | patients reporting grade 2 or 3 radiation-induced xerostomia 12 months or more postradiotherapy for head and neck cancer | TA and SA were administered 2 times per week for 4 weeks, with an additional 4 weeks for minor responders. | Acupuncture for Chronic Radiation-Induced Xerostomia in Head and Neck Cancer: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.cited 7× |
| true acupuncture (TA) | Increases - higher scores | Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General scores | Human | patients reporting grade 2 or 3 radiation-induced xerostomia 12 months or more postradiotherapy for head and neck cancer | TA and SA were administered 2 times per week for 4 weeks, with an additional 4 weeks for minor responders. | Acupuncture for Chronic Radiation-Induced Xerostomia in Head and Neck Cancer: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.cited 7× |
| true acupuncture (TA) | Increases - higher scores | Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General scores | Human | patients reporting grade 2 or 3 radiation-induced xerostomia 12 months or more postradiotherapy for head and neck cancer | TA and SA were administered 2 times per week for 4 weeks, with an additional 4 weeks for minor responders. | Acupuncture for Chronic Radiation-Induced Xerostomia in Head and Neck Cancer: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.cited 7× |
| Acupuncture treatment | Decreases - common intervention for the clinical relief | primary liver cancer (PLC) pain | Human | — | Not specified | Acupuncture treatment for liver cancer pain: A meta-analysis.cited 2× |
| Acupuncture treatment | No effect - variability in its efficacy | primary liver cancer (PLC) pain | Human | — | Not specified | Acupuncture treatment for liver cancer pain: A meta-analysis.cited 2× |
| auricular-acupuncture | Decreases - improves | cancer-related insomnia (CRI) | Human | patients with cancer | Not specified | Acupuncture for cancer-related insomnia: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.cited 1× |
| Acupuncture intervention | Decreases - improves | cancer-related insomnia (CRI) | Human | patients with cancer | Not specified | Acupuncture for cancer-related insomnia: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.cited 1× |
| Acupuncture | Decreases - improved | cancer-related insomnia (CRI) | Human | patients with cancer | Not specified | Acupuncture for cancer-related insomnia: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.cited 1× |
| Acupuncture | Decreases - improved | cancer-related insomnia (CRI) | Human | patients with cancer | Not specified | Acupuncture for cancer-related insomnia: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.cited 1× |
| Acupuncture | Decreases - improved | cancer-related insomnia (CRI) | Human | patients with cancer | Not specified | Acupuncture for cancer-related insomnia: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.cited 1× |
| acupuncture and music therapy | Decreases - were each found to be effective | cancer-related pain | Human | patients with cancer | Not specified | Incorporating Music Therapy With Acupuncture in Managing Cancer Pain at an Acupuncture Practice. |
| acupuncture | Decreases - holds promise as a potential non-pharmacological approach for managing | anorexia during cancer chemotherapy | Human | — | Not specified | Acupuncture's Emergence as A Promising Non-Pharmacological Therapy for Appetite Management in Cancer Chemotherapy. |
| acupuncture | Increases - led to statistically and clinically meaningful improvements | breast cancer-specific quality of life | Human | women undergoing endocrine therapy for breast cancer in the United States, China, and South Korea | 20 acupuncture sessions over 10 weeks. | Acupuncture for hot flashes in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: A pooled analysis of individual patient data from parallel randomized trials.cited 3× |
| acupuncture | No effect - showed contradictory results | cancer pain | Human | adult patients with cancer in palliative care | Not specified | Efficacy of the complementary therapies in the management of cancer pain in palliative care: A systematic review.cited 29× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - effective | cancer pain | Human | patients with cancer and cancer survivors | Not Assessed | Patient-Reported Outcomes of Pain and Related Symptoms in Integrative Oncology Practice and Clinical Research: Evidence and Recommendations.cited 14× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - alleviate | cancer-related fatigue (CRF) | Human | breast cancer survivors | 12 acupuncture treatments over 12 weeks. | Acupuncture for fatigue in breast cancer survivors: a study protocol for a pragmatic, mixed method, randomised controlled trial. |
| acupuncture | Decreases - may reduce | cancer-related fatigue | Human | following cancer treatments | Not specified | A systematic review of complementary and alternative medicine interventions for the management of cancer-related fatigue.cited 100× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - showed in favor of | cancer-related fatigue (CRF) | Human | people with cancer | Not specified | Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials of Acupuncture for Cancer-Related Fatigue.cited 39× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - was more effective in alleviating | cancer-related fatigue (CRF) | Human | patients with cancer-related fatigue | Not specified | Acupoint stimulation for cancer-related fatigue: A quantitative synthesis of randomised controlled trials.cited 10× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - can be recommended | cancer-related fatigue | Human | cancer survivors | Not available | Lifestyle and integrative oncology interventions for cancer-related fatigue and sleep disturbances.cited 4× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - appear promising but are as yet lacking convincing evidence | cancer-related fatigue | Human | — | Not specified | Nonpharmacologic approach to fatigue in patients with cancer.cited 19× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - has been proved effective | cancer related pain (CRP) | Human | in China, America and some other countries | Not specified | Acupuncture for Cancer Related Pain: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomised Wait-List Controlled Trial.cited 3× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - will relieve | cancer related pain | Human | Adults with cancer related pain (n = 106) | Not specified | Acupuncture for Cancer Related Pain: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomised Wait-List Controlled Trial.cited 3× |
| acupuncture | Decreases - ranked best | European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) | Human | cancer patients with fatigue | Not specified | Nonpharmacological Interventions for Cancer-Related Fatigue: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis.cited 46× |
| Acupuncture | Decreases - show benefits | palliation of cancer pain | Human | cancer patients | Not specified | Recent non-interventional advances in cancer pain among Singapore patients.cited 1× |
| Acupuncture | Decreases - is useful for treating | side effects of breast cancer therapies | Human | — | Not specified | Advising Women Undergoing Treatment for Breast Cancer: A Narrative Review.cited 9× |