Cancer Treatment With Acupuncture

COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES TO CANCER

Integrative Oncology: PAIN, EMOTIONAL DISORDERS THAT AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

Return different kinds of pain in patients with cancer, anxiety and affective disorders frequently occur. Depending on the diagnosis of cancer after the diagnosis, the best treatment approach, due to disease recurrence or follow-up examinations the examination and the person often appears to be periods of anxiety and low mood. Applied for the diagnosis or treatment of the disease with surgery or biopsy procedures, such as chemotherapy-induced pain, suffering, is expected to be symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. Advanced stages of the disease pain, suffering and moral disorders, such as elimination of symptoms and improving quality of life in terms of the success of medical treatment is becoming an important goal.

Standard treatment approaches to reduce these symptoms or side effects sometimes do not succeed due to be applied. Acupuncture, massage, and mind-body techniques and other complementary methods of treatment, it may be beneficial in reducing symptoms. Better separation of complementary therapy and alternative therapy is required. Alternative treatment methods are based on most of the fraud, the person also can cause damage.

Nowadays, complementary treatment methods are scientifically shown to be effective as a treatment called integrative methods have been developed by combining the conventional treatment methods. Music, complementary therapies, such as massage therapy and acupuncture methods of playing a passive role in the patient, self-hypnosis, yoga and meditation methods, such as playing an active role in the patient. Below is a complementary therapy in cancer patients, the methods can be applied to overcome some of the symptoms mentioned.

Pain associated with cancer

Is a common occurrence in patients with cancer pain, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures connected directly to the cancer mass compression of surrounding tissues or organs may occur, depending on the membrane surrounding the germesine or treatment connected.

In patients with moderate or severe pain, acupuncture, massage, complementary therapies such as hypnosis and relaxation techniques are recommended. The implementation of these methods, the patient's request, the method of evaluating factors such as loss-benefit ratio should be considered.



Procedure-related pain: a complementary treatment methods may be helpful in this regard. Especially to hear and severity of procedure-related pain, fear and expectation of pain plays a major role be heard. This is an unnecessarily high amount during the process and during the process the use of painkillers and sedatives yapılamamsına cooperate enough to cause the patient. Lumbar puncture, catheter insertion, bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, endoscopy, during procedures such as breast and skin biopsy was shown to be beneficial in a complementary treatment method. In a study of children with cognitive behavior therapy, hypnosis, or conduct prior to bone marrow aspiration shown to be beneficial in reducing the severity of the pain. By reducing anxiety and stress in both treatment approach is to show that hypnosis was higher effectiveness.

Patients interventional procedure, to apply prior to chemotherapy or radiotherapy, such as self-hypnosis and relaxation techniques learn mind-body techniques. These techniques are quick and easy to learn. In addition, children with frequent bone marrow aspiration and biopsy may be useful in cancer patients.

Music tedaisi also helpful in this regard as other complementary treatment method used. However, the majority of patients prefer to have the application that pain relief should be noted that instead of music therapy. The planned operation on these issues with the preference of the patient's pain is of great importance. Today, the above-mentioned methods are often used in conjunction with conventional methods.

Due to involvement of the mass of cancer pain: cancer pain due to compression of the nerves most of the touch of the cancer mass is due to the surrounding tissue or organs. In the treatment of cancer in bone mass of the spine, spinal cord steroid therapy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or surgery, such as one or more of the transactions are used. Cancer is caused by obstruction of adjacent organs audience at the forefront of surgical intervention in the treatment of cancer pain is considered. In addition to pain relief therapies can also be used. Complementary therapy in the treatment of sudden-mentioned methods of this pain alone, the chances of success are very low and is not practical for implementation. Made detailed studies such pain as soon as possible is of great importance Selecting the proper medical treatment.

After passing through an acute phase of pain is of great importance to maintain pain control is provided. This should be done as little as possible side effects of the treatment. For example, the use of strong pain relievers, opioids, which gelişebilmekte constipation, stool softener and bowel movements that improve the long-term use leads to additional drugs. As a result, bowel movement disorder appears to be an additional problem. Long-term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may cause gastrointestinal bleeding system. Long-term pain can lead to depression, drug use, and opioids. Sometimes develop tolerance to drugs and opioids or other drugs to increase the dosage must be changed.

Although there is this issue a long-term randomized trial in patients with pain, opioids or non-steroidal antiinflamtuar the implementation of complementary treatment methods is thought to reduce the need for medication. In particular, as the patient remains passive methods of massage can be helpful.

Patients who choose to participate actively in the mind-body techniques may be preferred. Relaxation and pain intensity and pain killers reducing the need for imaginative work may reduce the side effects of drugs. The use of hypnosis in the treatment of cancer-related pain, including pain and mucositis researched extensively shown to be beneficial in the treatment of pain. Pain called neuropathic pain, nerve origin, there is an activity of more than pain relief drugs. In these patients, pain threshold can be increased by using mind-body techniques and the degree of pain can be reduced.

Long-lasting pain for months or years, the patient leads to demoralization and stress, it leads to loose communication with the immediate surroundings. In such cases, complementary treatment methods can provide improvement in quality of life by reducing low mood and anxiety.

Massage therapy or reflexology (foot massage) to be useful in chronic cancer pain and a lot of studies have shown a lot of hospitals are included in the program. Massage therapy is very safe when performed by an experienced and trained personnel. Patients feel relief after treatment with massage.

Acupuncture, after intervention (eg, tooth extraction) in the treatment of acute pain or chronic pain such as headaches successfully implemented. Opioids in the body believed to reduce pain by stimulating nerve transmitters. Although some studies have disputed the effectiveness of acupuncture in cancer pain, such as neuropathic pain, including pain resistant to treatment, are shown to be useful in providing a reduction in pain intensity. Acupuncture needles, insulin needles fine, sterile and disposable needles. This process was to place the needles appropriate for the skin with little or no pain There is no damage to the tissue is less than in the other injections. So it is very safe. Even though they are sterile neutropenic, thrombocytopenic, or not apply to those carrying the risk of heart valve endocarditis due to impaired recommended. The most important disadvantage is that the cost and the need to go often acupuncturist.



Pain associated with cancer treatment: chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgical treatment may develop pain after. Especially difficult to treat neuropathic pain. Acupuncture thoracotomy, mastectomy, and radical neck dissection due to such operations are useful in neuropathic pain.

Taxanes or platinum group of chemotherapy drugs cause peripheral neuropathy is not an effective treatment. Drug-induced neuropathy symptoms may continue for months and shows a slow improvement. E vitamimi, such as alpha lipoic acid and glutamine in the use of dietary supplements may be beneficial. Mind-body techniques and methods such as massage other than cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, neuropathy and diabetes-related diseases such as HIV-associated neuropathy, researched and reported different results.



Anxiety, low mood and other mood disorders: cancer diagnosis and treatment, most patients lead to the development of psychological disorders. Especially the fear of death, thinking it looks ugly physically, immobility, pain reduction and many events surrounding the patient's psychological status of communication with people affected. In most patients with the diagnosis of depression is konmamakla. In such patients, anxiety and depression medications can be helpful in relieving drugs. However, some patients can not see the full benefit of medical treatment. Acupuncture, massage therapy, music therapy, and mind-body approaches such as meditation, relaxation techniques, and complementary methods, anxiety, depression and distress shown to reduce symptoms. In addition, a study of the effectiveness of this approach was sustained for at least 6 months. Acupuncture treatment using hormonal therapy is associated with breast and prostate cancer patients shows a positive effect on changes in emotion. Massage therapy can also provide the person with whom you feel better. Music therapy is also helpful in reducing stress in bone marrow transplant treatments as heavy as another simple method of complementary medicine.

Complementary to the patient before the initiation of treatment approaches, panic attacks, severe psychological problems, such as the tendency to commit suicide in terms of assessing whether psychiatric evaluation may be required. Fixing some of the side effects of concern, weeks after the start of the effect of depression medication because of the complementary treatment approaches that can be used as adjunct. Complementary therapies, such as the patient's cancer diagnosis or recurrence of the disease may be more resistant to the news that may impair his morale.

The long-term psychological symptoms, intense anxiety or severe depression in patients undergoing medical treatment, the application of the most important therapeutic approach. However, with the addition of a complementary therapy in appropriate patients, or the amount of doses of the drugs used in medical treatment could be reduced. Thus, the unwanted side effects of medical treatments can be reduced.

Some patients have psychological and physical symptoms of disease, eliminating the use of various herbal or dietary supplements. People are often side effects of these products and medical treatment not interact with any believe not fall. However, all of these supplements when the body shows biological activity in the body, triggers the start of some of the chemical phenomena. For this reason, chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgical treatment of patients scheduled to be helpful not to use these types of products. Hematologist or oncologist also be used in the subsequent selection of a safe and useful products that can help. Received herbal or dietary supplements may affect enzyme systems that metabolize drugs, disrupting clotting may cause bleeding and can cause drug-herbal product interactions. St. John's fluid affects the metabolism of many drugs.

Vegetable products used for treating patients with cancer and the side effects of emotion (these products are recommended to be used in cancer patients):

Kava kava: used to treat anxiety. With the effects of drugs on the central nervous system which is capable of suppressing excessive pressure in looking and may result. Also impair liver function.

Ephedra: Asthma, is commonly used as a stimulant and appetite suppressant. Sympathetic nervous system stimulant. Heart disorders, seizures, psychotic disorder may cause the development.

St. John's solution: depression, seasonal emotional disorder and anxiety are widely used in such cases. Serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, gamaamino butyric acid by blocking the reuptake of effect. The effectiveness of drugs that are metabolised by CYP3A4 enzyme system changes. Reduce the therapeutic effect of the drug called irinotecan and tamoxifen.

Valeryan: used to facilitate sleep. Gamaamino considered to show the effect of butyric acid and benzodiazepine out pathway. Barbiturates and benzodiazepines used in conjunction with the effectiveness of both increasing and excessive sleepiness may occur. Also known as discontinuation syndrome dependency ceases to use the findings observed.

Passionflower: insomnia, anxiety, seizures, nerve pain, or benzodiazepine drugs such as opyat used to reduce withdrawal symptoms. Gamaamino butyric acid receptors is thought to exert stimulating effects. Increase the effectiveness of drugs, drugs that act on the central nervous system.

Ginkgo biloba: forgetfulness, peripheral vascular system diseases, sexual disorders, and is used to treat hair loss. Mental improvement, in case of feeling and improves daily living activities. Cases have been reported to cause bleeding and seizures.

Emotional disorders, dietary supplements used for cancer patients:

S-adenosyl methionine: antidepressant activity level is equivalent to the standard tricyclic antidepressants. Initiate manic episodes in bipolar patients.

Phenylalanine: monoamine oxidase inhibitors may increase the effects.

Omega-3 fatty acids, especially docosahexaenoic acid mood regulator.

Low folate levels: fluoxetine is associated with poor response to treatment. Detected, the patient should be given folate.

While there may be benefits of dietary supplements, raises important issues. Of the patients and no side effects of these products such as whether they are natural thoughts are wrong. The lack of standardization of products during production, the control is not sufficient to demonstrate variation in the amount of the active substance, such as content and there are serious problems. Because of all these problems with the use of medicinal products, as well as support during treatment side effects and interactions can be unpredictable.

Already widely used to enhance the effectiveness of antidepressants, tryptophan, eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome is caused by the contamination of production to the United States for a long time sold URLs. St. John's solution reduces the effectiveness of the drug in patients receiving irinotecan.

Plant-based drugs, or dietary supplements cancer patients before treatment and after that should you decide to do research on the interaction with.

As a result, a complementary treatment methods may be useful in some patients. However, the group of patients will benefit from a pre-determination is not possible. Mind-body techniques, massage therapies as well as a complementary treatment methods are safe and the United States in the enforcement is carried out by a licensed. Acupuncture is another method applied with a low risk.