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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine for Cancer Patients Guest Editors: S. Schröder, S. Lee, T. Efferth, and Y. Motoo Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine for Cancer Patients Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine for Cancer Patients Guest Editors: S. Schro¨der, S. Lee, T. Efferth, and Y. Motoo Copyright©2013HindawiPublishingCorporation.Allrightsreserved. Thisisaspecialissuepublishedin“Evidence-BasedComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine.”Allarticlesareopenaccessarticles distributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninany medium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Editorial Board MahmoodAbdulla,Malaysia Jen-HweyChiu,Taiwan Ching-LiangHsieh,Taiwan JonAdams,Australia WilliamC.S.Cho,HongKong JingHu,China ZurainiAhmad,Malaysia JaeYoulCho,Korea GanSiewHua,Malaysia UlyssesAlbuquerque,Brazil Seung-HunCho,RepublicofKorea Sheng-TengHuang,Taiwan GianniAllais,Italy CheeYanChoo,Malaysia BennyTanKwongHuat,Singapore TerjeAlraek,Norway RyowonChoue,RepublicofKorea RomanHuber,Germany SoulimanAmrani,Morocco Shuang-EnChuang,Taiwan AngeloAntonioIzzo,Italy AkshayAnand,India Joo-HoChung,RepublicofKorea KongJ.,USA ShrikantAnant,USA EdwinL.Cooper,USA SureshJadhav,India ManuelArroyo-Morales,Spain GregoryD.Cramer,USA KanokwanJarukamjorn,Thailand SyedAsdaq,SaudiArabia MengCui,China YongJiang,China SeddighehAsgary,Iran RobertoCuman,Brazil ZhengL.Jiang,China HyunsuBae,RepublicofKorea VincenzoDeFeo,Italy StefanieJoos,Germany LijunBai,China Roc´?oVa´zquez,Spain SirajudeenK.N.S.,Malaysia SandipK.Bandyopadhyay,India MartinDescarreaux,USA Z.Kain,USA SarangBani,India 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ChangGueSon,Korea XiufenYang,China F.R.F.Nascimento,Brazil RachidSoulimani,France KenYasukawa,Japan S.Nayak,TrinidadAndTobago DidierStien,France MinH.Ye,China IsabellaNeri,Italy Shan-YuSu,Taiwan M.Yoon,RepublicofKorea Te´lesphoreNguelefack,Cameroon MohdRoslanSulaiman,Malaysia JieYu,China MartinOffenbacher,Germany VenilN.Sumantran,India Jin-LanZhang,China Ki-WanOh,RepublicofKorea JohnR.S.Tabuti,Uganda ZunjianZhang,China Y.Ohta,Japan TokuTakahashi,USA Wei-boZhang,China OlumayokunA.Olajide,UK RabihTalhouk,Lebanon HongQ.Zhang,HongKong ThomasOstermann,Germany Wen-FuTang,China BoliZhang,China StaceyA.Page,Canada YupingTang,China RuixinZhang,USA Tai-LongPan,Taiwan LayKekTeh,Malaysia HongZhang,Sweden BhushanPatwardhan,India MayankThakur,India HaiboZhu,China BeritSmestadPaulsen,Norway MenakaC.Thounaojam,India Contents AcupunctureandHerbalMedicineforCancerPatients,S.Schro¨der,S.Lee,T.Efferth,andY.Motoo Volume2013,ArticleID313751,5pages ASurveyofChineseMedicinalHerbalTreatmentforChemotherapy-InducedOralMucositis, GesaMeyer-Hamme,KathrinBeckmann,JanineRadtke,ThomasEfferth,HenryJohannesGreten, MatthiasRostock,andSvenSchro¨der Volume2013,ArticleID284959,16pages PotentialTherapeuticRoleofHispidulininGastricCancerthroughInductionofApoptosisviaNAG-1 Signaling,ChaoYuanYu,Kang-YiSu,Po-LeiLee,Jie-YuJhan,Po-HungTsao,De-ChuanChan, andYi-LinSophiaChen Volume2013,ArticleID518301,12pages Chemotherapy-InducedPeripheralNeuropathyinCancerPatients:AFour-ArmRandomizedTrialon theEffectivenessofElectroacupuncture,M.Rostock,K.Jaroslawski,C.Guethlin,R.Ludtke,S.Schro¨der, andH.H.Bartsch Volume2013,ArticleID349653,9pages CanMedicalHerbsStimulateRegenerationorNeuroprotectionandTreatNeuropathicPainin Chemotherapy-InducedPeripheralNeuropathy?,SvenSchro¨der,KathrinBeckmann,GiovannaFranconi, GesaMeyer-Hamme,ThomasFriedemann,HenryJohannesGreten,MatthiasRostock,andThomasEfferth Volume2013,ArticleID423713,18pages 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1HanseMerkurCenterforTraditionalChineseMedicine,UniversityMedicalCenterHamburg-Eppendorf, 20246Hamburg,Germany 2DepartmentofClinicalOncology,CollegeofKoreanMedicine,KyungHeeUniversity,Seoul130-701,RepublicofKorea 3DepartmentofPharmaceuticalBiology,InstituteofPharmacyandBiochemistry,JohannesGutenbergUniversity, StaudingerWeg5,55128Mainz,Germany 4DepartmentofMedicalOncology,KanazawaMedicalUniversity,Uchinada,Ishikawa920-0293,Japan CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoY.Motoo;motoo@kanazawa-med.ac.jp Received27October2013;Accepted27October2013 Copyright©2013S.Schro¨deretal.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense, whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. 1.ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine InKorea,78.5%ofcancerpatientsuseCAM[9].AJapanese (CAM)inCancerCare study revealed that 44.6% of cancer patients use CAM [10], while 83% of cancer patients or cancer survivors use In recent decades, cancer treatment has made remarkable CAMtreatmentsinAustralia[11].AnEuropeansurveyin13 progress with targeted therapy applied on targeted subpop- countriesshowed35.9%ofaverageCAMprevalenceincancer ulation[1].Thoughthelifeexpectancyofthegeneralpopu- patients(rangeamongcountries14.8%to73.1%)[12].Inother lationisincreasing,cancerisstilloneofthemostcommon partsoftheworldsimilarresultswereobtained[13].CAMis causesofdeathworldwide[2].Thesophisticatedtreatments alsousedby31–84%ofchildrenwithcancer[14].Thisusage are often accompanied with increased adverse events, and ofCAMforcancerismorecommonamongeducatedpeople the survival rate is still unsatisfactory in some cancers. In withbetterhealthbehaviour[15,16]aswellasamongwomen advancedorrecurrentcancers,thegoalofcancertreatment [17].Inthecaseoffemalecancers,morepatientsuseCAM; isoftennotcuringthediseasebutprolongingsurvivaltime forexample,60–80%ofbreastcancerpatients(incomparison with good quality of life. The health-related quality of life to50%amongcancerpatientsingeneral)and75%offemale is getting value as a cancer outcome, and the effect of coloncancerpatientsuseCAM[18]. earlypalliativecareisemphasizedimportantly[3].Nowadays Patients mostly use CAM as a complement to their medicalinformationiseasilyaccessedbypatients,andmost conventional therapy, not as an alternative treatment [19]. of patients are looking for treatments with less side effects Only very few patients replace conventional treatment by and all available information to prolong survival time and alternativemedicine[20].EventhoughtheuseofCAMisa to improve quality of life. Therefore, complementary and factworldwide,theviewonCAMvariesenormously,andthe alternativemedicine(CAM)forcancerisincreasinglybeing integrationofCAMtherapiesintoconventionaltherapiesis demanded by patients, and more physicians are getting extremelycomplicatedindifferentcountries. interestedintheuseofCAMincancertherapies. Although the governmental support on the research on TheuseofCAMincancertherapiesdiffersfromcountry CAM for cancer therapies differs among various countries, tocountry,butupto80%ofcancerpatientsusesomekindsof the use of CAM for cancer patients is still debated in an CAMtosupporttheirconventionalcancertreatments[4,5]. ideologicalwaybysupportersandopponentsofCAM.One In Southwestern China, the prevalence of Chinese herbal ofthecausesforthereluctanceofWesternacademiatowards medicine use is up to 53.0% during cancer treatment [6], CAM is still the insufficient number of convincing clinical and it seems similar to that of Hong Kong [7]. In Taiwan, studies providing evidence for the efficacy and safety of up to 98% of the cancer patients use any kind of CAM [8]. CAM therapies. The Western concept of “evidence-based
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