# OnCo record acupuncture-xerostomia (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/acupuncture-xerostomia/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "acupuncture-xerostomia" ;
  schema:name "Acupuncture for dry mouth after head and neck radiotherapy"@en ;
  schema:description "Radiotherapy to the head and neck can permanently dry the mouth. A randomised trial in the United States and China found that acupuncture given during radiotherapy reduced dry mouth a year later compared with standard care, an effect that needs confirming."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/acupuncture-xerostomia/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerostomia> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.16910>, <https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/acupuncture-pdq> ;
  onco:status "emerging" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:moderate" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nasopharyngeal/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/rejuvenation/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/integrative-oncology/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/dry-mouth-teeth-after-head-neck-radiotherapy/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-garcia-jama-netw-open/> .