Efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine therapies in relieving cancer pain: a systematic review

Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2009
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CRD SUMMARY:

The review concluded there was some evidence of short term benefit for the relief of cancer pain with hypnosis, imagery, support groups, acupuncture and healing touch but, due to the paucity of rigorous trials, no interventions can be recommended. The reliability of the authors' cautious conclusions is uncertain due to lack of reporting of review methods and poor quality evidence.
Epistemonikos ID: 7a2c316ecad903bfdeee5a53ecd78e73bf9dca52
First added on: Jun 07, 2012