Among cancer survivors with chronic musculoskeletal pain, both electroacupuncture and auricular acupuncture—also called battlefield acupuncture—effectively reduced pain and improved quality of life, according to a study presented at the virtual 2020 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (abstract 12004). The randomized study, which involved 360 participants, found that battlefield acupuncture was inferior to electroacupuncture at reducing pain and was
OCTOBER 7, 2020