A study has found that acupuncture benefits cancer patients who suffer from neuropathy as a result of chemotherapy, reports BBC.
The trial at Manchester's The Christie concluded that 68% of patients getting the treatment, which consisted of needles inserted into the skin, reported that symptoms of the nerve condition had reduced.
One of the patients with the condition shared that he could now "walk now without any trouble".
Professor Andrew Wardley now hopes the findings would create "a new standard of care".
The 3-year study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research and the Manchester hospital's charity, was undertaken on 120 patients, half of whom were offered weekly acupuncture sessions of 1 hour over ten weeks.
Sixty-eight-year-old Mr Kavanagh, who has had a number of years of chemotherapy to treat bone marrow cancer said "Walking was terrible. I had no idea what I was stood on - if it was hard, soft, hot or cold."
He told us that just after six acupuncture treatments, he started feeling his feet back, adding: "I can walk now without any trouble - before it was very hard to walk anywhere."
The leading consultant at The Christie, Prof Wardley, said he hoped the trial would "lead to a new standard of care for treating this condition, improving the lives of millions of patients".