Acupuncture for Cancer-Related Insomnia: Limited, Low-Certainty Benefits Compared with Sham or No Treatment; Inferior to CBT‑I
A 2025 Cochrane review (5 RCTs, 402 patients, mainly women with breast cancer) finds very low- to moderate-certainty evidence that acupuncture delivers small, uncertain sleep diary benefits versus sham or inactive controls and is probably less effective than CBT‑I for insomnia in people with cancer.
