In as little as eight weeks the use of electro-acupuncture (EA) produced significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and depression in early stage breast cancer patients, who were experiencing joint pain related to the use of aromatase inhibitors (AIs). The study led by researchers at the [b]Perelman School of Medicine[/b] at the [b]University of Pennsylvania[/b] is the first demonstration of EA’s efficacy for both joint pain relief, as well as these other common symptoms. The results build upon earlier findings showing that EA can decrease the joint pain reported by roughly 50% of breast cancer patients taking AIs – the most-commonly prescribed medications to prevent disease recurrence among post-menopausal women with early-stage, hormone receptor positive breast cancer.
[link url=http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2014/07/mao]UPHS UPenn press release[/link]
[link url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.28917/abstract]Cancer abstract[/link]
[link url=http://www.ejcancer.com/article/S0959-8049(13)00897-6/abstract]EJCancer abstract (earlier study)[/link]