Acupuncture Improves Immunity in Chemo Patients
Acupuncture
Improves Immunity in Chemo Patients
Chemotherapy is one
of most significant therapeutic approaches to cancer. Immune system functional
state is considered a major prognostic and predictive impact on the success of
chemotherapy and it has an important role on patients' psychoemotional state
and quality of life. In Chinese medicine, chemotherapy is understood as
"toxic cold" that may induce a progressive hypofunctional state of
immune system, thus compromising the fast recovery of immunity during
chemotherapy. In this study, we performed a standardized acupuncture and
moxibustion protocol to enhance immunity in cancer patients undergoing
chemotherapy and to assess if the improvement of immunity status correlates
with a better psychoemotional state and quality of life.
Source: Pais I,
Correia N,
Pimentel I,
Teles MJ,
Neves E,
Vasconcelos J,
Guimarães J,
Azevedo N,
Moreira Pinto
A, Machado J,
Efferth T,
Greten HJ.
Effects of acupuncture on leucopenia, neutropenia, NK, and B cells in cancer
patients: a randomized pilot study. Evid Based
Complement Alternat Med. 2014;2014:217397
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