Assessing Manual Acupuncture's Impact on Mucositis From Nasopharynx Cancer Radiotherapy: A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Quality of Life Study

Exclusion Criteria

• •Nasopharyngeal Cancer patients who have distant metastases (based on the Tumor Node Metastasis (TNM) classification with the presence of metastases (M1)).
• •Subjects who still smoke and consume alcohol to date.
• •Patients have contraindications for manual acupuncture, namely the use of anti-coagulant drugs, the presence of infection or wounds at the puncture site, emergency conditions, and pregnancy.
• •There is a history of allergy to stainless steel materials.
• •Patients with blood clotting disorders; Platelets \<50,000/μL, Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) \<1000/mm3, patients undergoing anticoagulant therapy with International Normalized Ratio (INR) \>2.47