At an American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago recently, new research was presented on acupuncture for head and neck cancer patients.  The study was done at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.   Seventy post-radiation patients were divided into two groups - one group had standard treatments and the other group had standard treatments plus acupuncture.  In the group which had acupuncture, 39% of patients reported improvements in pain and mobility.  In the group without acupuncture, only 7% reported improvements.  In my opinion, this is the direction medicine should be going - the integration of Western and Eastern approaches.  There's no reason why we can't take the best that each has to offer and have the best of both worlds.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNewsMolt/idUKN3140082420080531