Treatments for breast cancer could cause unlikable side effects for a good number of women, including hot flashes, sweating and lack of energy. At the present, new research advocates relief could issue from an unconventional therapy — acupuncture.
Acupuncture is as effectual and longer-lasting in managing the widespread incapacitating side effects of hot flashes, night sweats, and excessive sweating related with breast cancer treatment and has no treatment side effects compared to conventional drug therapy, as maintained by a first-of-its-kind study presented September 24, 2008, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 50th Annual Meeting in Boston.
The most complete study of acupuncture in breast cancer patients was available in Journal of the American Medical Association in 2000. In the study, 104 women undertaking high-dose chemotherapy were given traditional anti-nausea medication. Besides taking the medication, the women were at random elected to accept 5 days of electroacupuncture (acupuncture in which needles are stimulated with a mild electrical flow), acupuncture with no an electrical current, or no acupuncture. The women who had acupuncture had considerably fewer nausea episodes than those who didn't.
Discoveries demonstrate there were other advantages to acupuncture treatment for breast cancer patients as well, for instance an increased sense of well being, more energy, and in some cases, a higher sex drive, that were not experienced in those patients who undertaken drug treatment for their hot flashes.
Even though both conventional and acupuncture treatments reduced the negative effects of breast cancer medicine considerably, conventional treatment created negative sides effects while acupuncture treatment provided other benefits.
Acupuncture relieves the hot flashes and night sweats widespread in women taking tamoxifen and Arimidex following breast cancer treatment. If you've suffered breast cancer and want to undertake acupuncture, be sure that your practitioner has treated people with breast cancer.
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