Research Article
Exploring the Needs and Concerns of Women with Early Breast Cancer during Chemotherapy: Valued Outcomes during a Course of Traditional Acupuncture
Table 1
Summary of main and secondary concerns recorded in treatment logs*.
| Main complaint | Secondary complaints |
| Tiredness/fatigue/exhaustion (27) | Night sweats/hot flushes (29) | Emotional (stress/distress/anxiety) (18) | Fatigue/tiredness/weakness (22) | Night sweats/hot flushes (12) | Emotional (stress/distress/anxiety) (17) | Nausea (11) | Poor sleep (19) | Pain—gastric, arthritic, tension (9) | Heartburn/gastritis (10) | Depression and feeling low (7) | Aches and pains including pain in chemotherapy arm, pain due to tension, and chest pain (10) | Ear problems (pain and deafness, tinnitus, and infection) (6) | Eyes—blepharitis (dry/pain/infection/red/inflamed) (7) | Anxiety/fear (5) | Sore mouth/throat (7) | Poor sleep (4) | Nausea/poor appetite (7) | Migraine/headache (4) | Breathless/tight chest (5) | Sore throat/mouth (3) | Disorientation/“spaced out”/feeling disconnected (4) | Head cold/cough (2) | Headache (4) | Constipation (2) | Breast pain or tenderness or infection or fluid (5) | Disorientation/“spaced out”/feeling disconnected (1) | Diarrhoea (5) constipation (3) | Fluid around wound (1) | Oedema (5) | | Back pain (4) | | Blood glucose erratic (4) | | Tinnitus (3) | | Low white cell count (1) |
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The number in brackets is a count of the number of times each was mentioned in the treatment log.
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