A female patient, Ms. A, in her fifties, was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago and received 12 chemotherapy, mainly paclitaxel and carboplatin. During chemotherapy, the objective peripheral sensory fiber examination showed that the hands lost severe sensation and the feet lost deep pressure. Later, they went to the Chinese medicine department of Annan Hospital for acupuncture treatment, and the protective feeling of their hands and feet gradually recovered. After a period of continuous treatment, the cold and hot feeling on his feet finally recovered, and the numbness of his hands gradually eased.
Some chemotherapy drugs are neurotoxic, and nearly 70% will have hand and foot paralysis.
Some chemotherapeutic drugs, such as paclitaxel, platinum and vinblastine, have different degrees of neurotoxicity. According to statistics, one month after treatment, about 68% patients continue to have neurological symptoms such as sensory disturbance of hands and feet, and 30% patients will still have symptoms that are difficult to solve after half a year.
Dr. Huang Qianzhen said that the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy, including numbness of gloves and feet from limbs to knees and elbows, are all caused by the influence of chemotherapy drugs on dorsal root ganglia and sensory nerves of limbs.
Traditional Chinese medicine interventional therapy acupuncture proves that it can improve the effect of numbness.
There are limited treatment methods for peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy, among which Chinese medicine is one of the clinical interventional treatment methods. Dr. Huang Qianzhen said that the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy belong to the category of "blood stasis" in traditional Chinese medicine; Small-scale clinical studies in recent ten years have confirmed that acupuncture can improve the numbness of peripheral nerves and the pain in cancer treatment.
Dr. Huang Qianzhen further pointed out that the peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy not only affects the quality of life of patients to a considerable extent, but may even lead patients to stop receiving cancer treatment. Therefore, the intervention and conditioning of traditional Chinese medicine can alleviate the numbness of hands and feet after chemotherapy, improve the quality of life of patients, and maintain cancer treatment to a certain extent without interruption.
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