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Acupuncture for Cancer-Related Insomnia: Limited, Low-Certainty Benefits Compared with Sham or No Treatment; Inferior to CBT‑I

MedXY Editorial Team•Dec 16, 2025•Neurology
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– A Cochrane systematic review (Ma et al., 2025) pooled five RCTs (402 participants, mostly women with breast cancer) evaluating acupuncture for insomnia in cancer populations.

– Evidence quality ranged from very low to moderate. Compared with sham or inactive controls, acupuncture produced small, uncertain improvements in some sleep diary measures but did not consistently exceed minimally important differences (MIDs) for standard patient-reported scales (ISI, PSQI).

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