Cancer related symptom relief

Auricular acupuncture was superior to placebo for cancer-related chronic neuropathic pain; the meta-analysis indicated that auricular therapy is effective and safe for the treatment of cancer pain, and auricular therapy plus drug therapy is more effective than drug therapy alone, whether in terms of pain relief or adverse reactions; routine analgesia and acupuncture within 10 days before gastric cancer treatment showed no difference. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a debilitating and often painful condition that occurs after chemotherapy drugs. There is level I evidence that treatment with duloxetine improves CIPN pain modestly to moderately, and acupuncture also improves short-term Moderate improvement.