Effectiveness of acupuncture for cancer pain: protocol for an umbrella review and meta-analyses of controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for adult cancer pain indicate that acupuncture and related therapies may be valuable additions to pharmacological interventions for pain management. Of the systematic reviews related to this topic, some concluded that acupuncture was promising for alleviating cancer pain, while others argued that the evidence was insufficient to support its effectiveness.

Methods and analysis

This review will consist of three components: (1) synthesis of findings from existing systematic reviews; (2) updated meta-analyses of randomised clinical trials and (3) analyses of results of other types of clinical studies. We will search six English and four Chinese biomedical databases, dissertations and grey literature to identify s

SUBMITTER: He Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5778333 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature