Reduced Need for Rescue Antiemetics and Improved Capacity to Eat in Patients Receiving Acupuncture Compared to Patients Receiving Sham Acupuncture or Standard Care during Radiotherapy

Table 4

Eating capacity in patients treated with verum or sham acupuncture during radiotherapy.

Variable	Total	Verum acupuncture group	Sham acupuncture group
Eating capacity within the entire radiotherapy period md, 25th–75th percentile of summed number of days
Ate as usual	16, 4–30	15, 2–30	16, 11–30
Ate less	10, 2–21	12, 0–22	10, 4–20
Ate much less	1, 0–7	1, 0–6	1, 0–7

The summed number of days with different capacity to eat during the entire radiotherapy period is presented.