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ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2013

Acupuncture for cancer pain and related symptoms.

Weidong Lu, David S Rosenthal

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Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
13.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Group versus Individual Acupuncture (AP) for Cancer Pain: A Randomized Noninferiority Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020
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  18. Managing Pain in the Older Cancer Patient.Current oncology reports · 2019
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  20. Establishing an integrative oncology service in the Australian healthcare setting-the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Hospital experience.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Weidong LuLeonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. weidong_lu@dfci.harvard.edu
David S Rosenthal
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Acupuncture for Dysphagia after Chemoradiation for Head and Neck CancerK01AT004415 · NCCIH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI LU, WEIDONG · 2007 to 2011
$642k
NCCIH NIH HHS 1K01 AT004415NCCIH NIH HHS K01 AT004415
6 · The paper itself

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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Acupuncture TherapyAnalgesics, OpioidAntineoplastic AgentsFemaleGuidelines as TopicHumansIntractable PainMaleNauseaNeoplasmsPain ManagementTreatment OutcomeUnited StatesVomitingAnalgesics, OpioidAntineoplastic Agents

Identifiers

PMID23338773
PMCPMC4008096
OpenAlexW2001778987

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