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Thursday 17 November 2016

Acupuncture for treating hot flushes in breast cancer patients?

Acupuncture for hot flushes?

What next?

I know, to rational thinkers this sounds bizarre – but, actually, there are quite a few studies on the subject.

Enough evidence for me to have published not one but four different systematic reviews on the subject. The first (2009) concluded that “the evidence is not convincing to suggest acupuncture is an effective treatment of hot flash in patients with breast cancer. Further research is required to investigate whether there are specific effects of acupuncture for treating hot flash in patients with breast cancer.”

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