Ventajas del uso de la acupuntura en el paciente oncológico : estudio de 2 casos

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Marco
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Paulo, Filomena, Martins, Conceição
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/4147
• topic: Acupunctura; Cáncer; Oncología; Acupunture; Cancer; Oncology

a b s t r a c t Introduction: Acupuncture is referenced in several studies as helpful in monitoring the cancer patient. This article presents a study of two cases of non metastatic cancer where acupuncture was used for palliative treatment in the course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments of their patients. Objective: To determine how acupuncture can improve the analytical markers of cancer patients, as well as how it can reduce pain and improve their quality of life. Material and Methods: A 55 year-old male patient with gastric cancer and a 42 year-old female patient who had lung cancer were followed. Acupuncture treatments performed continued over 3 months. The male patient began acupunctural therapy after having 3 sessions of chemotherapy and the female patient had already received chemotherapy and was in the second session of radiotherapy. It used the blood count to evaluate the variation of analytical markers, numeric scale (NS) to assess pain and WHOQOL-BREF tool to assess the quality of life. Results: There was a progressive improvement of the clinical condition, especially in pain and quality of life in general, as well as an improvement in their analytical values, in particular in hemoglobin and leukocytes. These improvements were seen in a shorter time interval after the intervention of acupuncture. Conclusion: This study suggests that acupuncture can be an effective option for adjuvant treatment in oncology.