Cancer Treatment

Acupuncture is an effective tool to treat pain and symptoms resulting from cancer.  Kathren Bunt attended a seminar at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY for Pain and Symptom Management of Cancer, with the focus on pre-surgery and post-surgery acupuncture, post-surgery symptoms, post-radiation therapy symptoms, alleviating toxic side effects and adverse effects of chemotherapy, and bone marrow transplant management.

The workshop instilled knowledge for treating cancer patients for Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Lung Cancer and Prostate Cancer.  

Acupuncture can assist with post-surgery symptoms of fever, pain, constipation, dry mouth, wound pain, non-closure of incision; post radiation therapy symptoms of fatigue, anemia, low white blood cell count, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, skin burns, and hair loss; adversie effectics of chemotherapy  for nausea and vomiting, hair loss, fatigue, vertigo, sensitivity to cold, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, bleeding, infection, toxicity, low blood counts, diarrhea, sexual dysfunction, hepatic dysfunction, and neuropathy; and post-bone marrow transplant manageement for ascities, hepatomegaly, jaundice and infection.