Auricular acupuncture: A novel treatment for vasomotor symptoms associated with luteinizing-hormone releasing hormone agonist treatment for prostate cancer

BJU International

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-190

  Harding, Christopher ^a   Harris, Andrea ^a   Chadwick, David ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Prostate cancer; Vasomotor symptoms

Indexed keywords

CYPROTERONE ACETATE; GONADORELIN AGONIST;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

ACUPUNCTURE, EAR; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149158031     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07884.x     Document Type: Article

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