{"id":951,"date":"2014-06-13T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=951"},"modified":"2014-05-22T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T09:21:16","slug":"shortcuts-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2014\/06\/13\/shortcuts-36\/","title":{"rendered":"SHORTCUTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Care Cancer. 2014 May;22(5):1409-15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00520-014-2126-2\"><strong>How long do the effects of acupuncture on hot flashes persist in cancer patients?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frisk JW, Hammar ML, Ingvar M, Spetz Holm AC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A systematic literature search identified 222 articles which evaluated the long-term effects ofacupuncture on vasomotor symptoms in women with breast cancer and men with prostate cancer. 17 of these met the inclusion criteria of which 7 had a Jadad score of at least 3. Six of these studies measured frequency of hot flashes weighted in relation to number of patients (n\u2009=\u2009172). Acupuncture reduced hot flashes on average by 43 %. At the last follow-up (mean 5.8 months, range 3-9 months) after the end of therapy, the weighted reduction from baseline was sustained at 46 % in the 153 of 172 patients (89 %) who were followed up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Prepared by Jason Boland<\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2014 &nbsp; Support Care Cancer. 2014 May;22(5):1409-15 How long do the effects of acupuncture on hot flashes persist in cancer patients? Frisk JW, Hammar ML, Ingvar M, Spetz Holm AC A systematic literature search identified 222 articles which evaluated the long-term effects ofacupuncture on vasomotor symptoms in women with breast cancer and men with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2014\/06\/13\/shortcuts-36\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}