TY - JOUR
T1 - The national cancer institute's conference on acupuncture for symptom management in oncology
T2 - State of the science, evidence, and research gaps
AU - Zia, Farah Z.
AU - Olaku, Oluwadamilola
AU - Bao, Ting
AU - Berger, Ann
AU - Deng, Gary
AU - Fan, Arthur Yin
AU - Garcia, Mary K.
AU - Herman, Patricia M.
AU - Kaptchuk, Ted J.
AU - Ladas, Elena J.
AU - Langevin, Helene M.
AU - Lao, Lixing
AU - Lu, Weidong
AU - Napadow, Vitaly
AU - Niemtzow, Richard C.
AU - Vickers, Andrew J.
AU - Wang, Xin Shelley
AU - Witt, Claudia M.
AU - Mao, Jun J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - The Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) held a symposiumon "Acupuncture for Cancer Symptom Management" on June 16 and 17, 2016. Invited speakers included 19 scientists and scholars with expertise in acupuncture and cancer research from the United States, Europe, and China. The conference reviewed the NCI's grant funding on acupuncture, analyzed the needs of cancer patients, reviewed safety issues, and assessed both the current scientific evidence and research gaps of acupuncture in oncology care. Researchers and stakeholders presented and discussed basic mechanisms of acupuncture; clinical evidence for specific symptoms; and methodological challenges such as placebo effects, novel biostatistical methods, patient-reported outcomes, and comparative effectiveness research. This paper, resulting from the conference, summarizes both the current state of the science and clinical evidence of oncology acupuncture, identifies key scientific gaps, and makes recommendations for future research to increase understanding of both the mechanisms and effects of acupuncture for cancer symptom management.
AB - The Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) held a symposiumon "Acupuncture for Cancer Symptom Management" on June 16 and 17, 2016. Invited speakers included 19 scientists and scholars with expertise in acupuncture and cancer research from the United States, Europe, and China. The conference reviewed the NCI's grant funding on acupuncture, analyzed the needs of cancer patients, reviewed safety issues, and assessed both the current scientific evidence and research gaps of acupuncture in oncology care. Researchers and stakeholders presented and discussed basic mechanisms of acupuncture; clinical evidence for specific symptoms; and methodological challenges such as placebo effects, novel biostatistical methods, patient-reported outcomes, and comparative effectiveness research. This paper, resulting from the conference, summarizes both the current state of the science and clinical evidence of oncology acupuncture, identifies key scientific gaps, and makes recommendations for future research to increase understanding of both the mechanisms and effects of acupuncture for cancer symptom management.
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U2 - 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgx005
DO - 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgx005
M3 - Article
C2 - 29140486
AN - SCOPUS:85048280953
SN - 1052-6773
VL - 2017
SP - 68
EP - 73
JO - Journal of the National Cancer Institute - Monographs
JF - Journal of the National Cancer Institute - Monographs
IS - 52
M1 - lgx005
ER -