Acupuncture for Cancer in Traditional Chinese Medicine

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"The benefits of acupuncture therapy and anticancer treatment may be summarized as the following three aspects, one increasing the immunity of the body, combining with surgery and chemo radiotherapy to improve the effectiveness or prolong survival time of patients. Recently clinical research is that acupuncture could heighten the seroimmune function of cancer patients. Two, prevent or elude side effects caused by chemo radiotherapy or post operated pains helps patients successful complete scheduled courses of chemo radiotherapy or recover rapidly from the surgery. Acupuncture can effectively prevent oncology in the treatment in the side effects such as nausea, vomiting, pain, fatigue, constipation, diarrhea, and poor appetite. These treatments can increase the patient’s ability to tolerate their chemo radiotherapy and speed up recovery time. Three, alleviate symptoms of cancer patients in the late stages especially the pain and improve the life quality of the patients due to an increasing endorphin level of the body by acupuncture, many cancer patients with severe pain could reduce the need of injecting morphine and achieve a natural relief of pain. "