Acupuncture can be a great compliment to helping ease the discomfort and side-effects of traditional cancer treatments. The following are just some of the ways it might help:

• Helps ease nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing chemotherapy
• Helps with general pain control: post-operative and cancer pain. It also helps reduce the use of narcotics and therefore minimizes the side effects of confusion, disturbed mental state, behavioral changes, nausea, and severe constipation.
• It helps control radiation-induced injury by controlling pain and edema and restoring immune function after radiotherapy
• For surgical patients, acupuncture can help reduce post-surgical pain and reduce local swelling; it also helps shorten the resolution of hematoma and tissue swelling and quickens the healing process.
• It improves energy level, provides an improved sense of well-being, improves healing energy to specific organs, and quickens recovery from the side effects of the various therapies.
• It helps to stabilize emotions.
• It helps to improve sleep.
• It helps improve digestive and breathing function.