A recently completed clinical trial purports that two types of acupuncture may help reduce chronic pain in cancer survivors. While acupuncture has long been used to relief pain in non-cancer patients, "the trial is one of the first large randomized clinical studies designed to test whether the therapy might offer relief for cancer-related pain in survivors of a host of different cancers." According to results from the trial, led by Dr. Jun Mao, chief of the Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, "participants who received electroacupuncture reported modestly better pain control than those treated with auricular acupuncture." However, regardless of which type of acupuncture was administered, decrease in pain lasted up to 4 months.
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