Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42402897›Full record

ArticleJournal of the National Cancer Institute2026

RE: Electroacupuncture improves cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in breast cancer survivors: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Pei Shen, Xinqi Chen, Cong Wang, Fu Xu

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Article in Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Response to Wang et al. and Shen et al.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Pei ShenDepartment of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Hangzhou, China.
Xinqi ChenDepartment of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Hangzhou, China.
Cong WangDepartment of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Hangzhou, China.
Fu XuDepartment of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0009-0001-8172-0418

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 82305374Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province LQ23H270002Zhejiang Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Project 2024ZL047
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We discuss the authors' conclusion regarding targeted acupoint selection improves neuropsychiatric outcomes. In our view, the conclusions would therefore be more defensible if centered on prespecified between-group contrasts and framed as preliminary evidence of possible point-selection effects.

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Breast NeoplasmsCognitionCognition DisordersElectroacupunctureSurvivorsFemaleHumansPilot ProjectsMethodological Commentsprotocol-to-report consistencytreatment guesses

Identifiers

PMID42402897

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