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. 2026 Mar 12.
doi: 10.1186/s12906-026-05341-2. Online ahead of print.

Acupuncture vs. sham acupuncture for cancer-related fatigue in patients with breast cancer: a double-center, randomized, single-blind pilot study

Yu Huang #  1   2 , Jianying Chang #  3 , Xianming Wu  1 , Guishuang He  4 , Qin Guo  5 , Caihong Lan  2 , Shuo Yang  6   7 , Qian Mo  8
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Acupuncture vs. sham acupuncture for cancer-related fatigue in patients with breast cancer: a double-center, randomized, single-blind pilot study

Yu Huang et al. BMC Complement Med Ther. .
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Keywords: Acupuncture; Breast Cancer; Cancer-Related Fatigue; Randomized Clinical Trial; Sham acupuncture.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study followed the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethics approval was obtained from the Ethics Review Committee of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou University of Chinese Medicine (No. PY2023001; March 1, 2023) and from the Ethics Review Committee of the Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guizhou Medical University (No. FZ2023-07-242; July 20, 2023). All participants provided written informed consent. Consent for publication: All participants provided written informed consent, including consent for publication of their clinical images in this article. Both ethics committees approved the use of patient images in Fig. 2. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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