Acupuncture Benefits During Chemotherapy
A groundbreaking study from 2000, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women undergoing high-dose chemotherapy for breast cancer who were getting acupuncture had 1/3 the number of emetic episodes (vomiting) compared to women receiving triple anti-emetic drug therapy alone.
Studies published since then have also found decreased fatigue, reduced nausea, improved sense of well-being, improved dry mouth and other benefits to patients receiving acupuncture for the effects of chemotherapy or radiation.
