Symptom clusters associated with complementary and alternative medicine use by cancer patients: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a commonly used approach among cancer patients, with a reported prevalence of 14.8 to 73.1% depending on multiple factors.

A case report of immediate effects of acupuncture on neuropathic cancer breakthrough pain.

Introduction: Acupuncture is a promising treatment for visceral cancer pain, but to date, evidence for immediate effects on neuropathic pain is limited.

Case Presentation: This report presents a case of immediate pain relief by single-needle acupuncture on opioid-refractory neuropathic breakthrough pain in a 78-year-old female breast cancer patient with cervical bone metastases. Acupuncture was applied at a single point neuroanatomically correlating to the pain affected spinal segment.

Circulating tumor cells in metastatic colorectal cancer: efficacy and feasibility of different enrichment methods.

Comprehensive in vitro and in vivo studies comparing EpCAM-based methods with other cytometric CTC enrichment technologies in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients are lacking. We compare four manual cytometric methods to detect CTCs in vitro and in mCRC patients. The EpCAM-based technology, MACS HEA MicroBeads((R)), showed a significant better tumor cell recovery rate compared to other cytometric methods (p-value<0.