Across Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, thousands of people are getting through chemotherapy the hard way — nauseated, exhausted, hands and feet gone numb, awake at 3 a.m. Almost none of them were ever told acupuncture could help. That silence is what we're here to break.
A woman sits in an infusion chair on a Tuesday morning. She has already lost her hair, her appetite, and most of her sense of what a normal week feels like. Her fingertips tingle so badly she can't button her own shirt. She doesn't complain, because compared to the cancer, this is supposed to be the manageable part.
Nobody tells her that some of it can be eased. Not cured — eased.
That the nausea can loosen its grip, that the neuropathy doesn't have to be permanent, that sleep can come back. She finishes treatment never knowing there was another kind of help sitting fifteen minutes down the road.
We have met too many people like her, too late. That is the whole reason this page exists.
Dr. Kim's work with cancer patients isn't about adding one more appointment to an already overwhelming calendar. It's about giving someone back a little ground — a meal they can keep down, a night of real sleep, enough steadiness in their hands to hold a grandchild. Small things, until they're yours.
If acupuncture isn't right for what you're facing, Dr. Kim will tell you plainly and point you somewhere better. That conversation is free, and it costs you nothing to have it.
We are the supportive care alongside your treatment, never a replacement for it. We coordinate with your team and share notes when it helps.
Some weeks you'll have the energy to come in. Some weeks you won't. We build care around chemo cycles and hard days, not the other way around.
The person driving you to appointments is carrying something heavy too. Caregivers are part of who we look after.
When you're facing cancer, hope has to be built on something real. It is. Major cancer bodies already recognize acupuncture as supportive care — most patients simply never hear about it.
Endorses acupuncture for cancer pain, chemo-induced nausea/vomiting, and hot flashes (Mao 2022).
Bao 2020 RCT: acupuncture significantly reduces chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy.
Lists acupuncture as a Category 1 intervention for cancer-related fatigue (Molassiotis 2012).
Garland 2019: acupuncture improved insomnia in cancer survivors.
We work alongside your team at Moffitt, AdventHealth, BayCare, and Florida Cancer Specialists.
Every protocol follows published guidelines and peer-reviewed research — no promises we can't stand behind.
We support the spouse, child, or friend who's quietly doing the research at midnight.
Fifteen minutes with Dr. Kim, no cost and no pressure. She'll tell you honestly what acupuncture can and can't do for your situation — even if the answer is that this isn't the right time.
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