Efficacy of Contact Needle Therapy for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	Case
	1	2	3	4	5	6
Age/sex	70/F	54/F	66/M	57/M	66/M	73/F
Performance status	0	0	0	0	0	0
Primary lesion	Colon	Breast	Colon	Colon	Colon	Colon
Chemotherapeutic agents	Oxaliplatin	Docetaxel paclitaxel	Oxaliplatin	Oxaliplatin	Oxaliplatin	Oxaliplatin
Regimen of chemotherapy	XELOX + Bev	DOC; PAC	mFOLFOX	mFOLFOX + Bev	SOX + Bev; FOLFIRI + Bev	XEROX + Bev
Past operations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tumor-baring	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

XELOX: oxaliplatin, capesitabine.
Bev: bevacizumab.
SOX: oxaliplatin, S-1.
FOLFIRI: folinic acid, fluorouracil, irinotecan.
FOLFOX: folinic acid, acid, fluorouracil, oxaliplatin.
DOC: fluorouracil, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide, docetaxel.
PAC: paclitaxel, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin.