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- Title
The safety of acupuncture in children and adolescents with cancer therapy-related thrombocytopenia.
- Authors
Ladas, Elena J; Rooney, Diane; Taromina, Katherine; Ndao, Deborah H; Kelly, Kara M
- Abstract
Acupuncture is frequently used to manage the side effects associated with cancer therapy. In acupuncture practice, the presence of thrombocytopenia is a relative contraindication to acupuncture use among patients with cancer. However, the safety of acupuncture in patients with cancer treatment-related thrombocytopenia has not been previously investigated.
- Publication
Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2010, Vol 18, Issue 11, p1487
- ISSN
1433-7339
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00520-010-0926-6