The laser reflexotherapy in children's oncology

Abstract

The article deals with the results of the authors' own preliminary results and the data of several investigations on using reflexotherapy in oncology. The results of those works demonstrate its effectiveness and safety in such manifestations of malignant tumors and complex treatment complications as pain syndrome, nausea, vomiting, edemas, immunodeficiency. In Russia the great experience in that field was accumulated by the Medical Radiological Scientific Center and by Research Institute of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology of Russian Oncological Scientific Center. The large-scale investigations in that field are underway in the US under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute. The well-tested methods of reflexotherapy should be introduced wider into the oncological practice, the research on that problem should be expanded