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Acupuncture for Cancer Pain and Related Symptoms

Overview of attention for article published in Current Pain and Headache Reports, January 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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Title
Acupuncture for Cancer Pain and Related Symptoms
Published in
Current Pain and Headache Reports, January 2013
DOI 10.1007/s11916-013-0321-3
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Authors

Weidong Lu, David S. Rosenthal

Abstract

Cancer pain is one of most prevalent symptoms in patients with cancer. Acupuncture and related techniques have been suggested for the management of cancer pain. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for adult cancer pain recommends acupuncture, as one of several integrative interventions, in conjunction with pharmacologic intervention as needed. This review presents the latest available evidence regarding the use of acupuncture for cancer pain. It also provides "actionable" acupuncture protocols for specific cancer pain conditions and related symptoms in order to provide more clinically relevant solutions for clinicians and cancer patients with pain. These conditions include postoperative cancer pain, postoperative nausea and vomiting, postsurgical gastroparesis syndrome, opioid-induced constipation, opioid-induced pruritus, chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, aromatase inhibitor-associated joint pain, and neck dissection-related pain and dysfunction.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 41 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 17%
Student > Bachelor 7 17%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Professor 2 5%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 14 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 17%
Psychology 2 5%
Neuroscience 2 5%
Social Sciences 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 14 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2023.
All research outputs
#1,321,650
of 25,576,801 outputs
Outputs from Current Pain and Headache Reports
#65
of 915 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,483
of 287,805 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Pain and Headache Reports
#3
of 11 outputs
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