Table 1.
Search strategy to be used in PubMed
| Search line | Search items |
| #1 | fatigue [MeSH Terms] |
| #2 | fatigue |
| #3 | cancer-related fatigue |
| #4 | cancer |
| #5 | carcinoma |
| #6 | malignance |
| #7 | #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 |
| #8 | transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation |
| #9 | transcutaneous acupoint electrical stimulation |
| #10 | TEAS |
| #11 | transcutaneous electrical acupuncture stimulation |
| #12 | transcutaneous electrical acupuncture point stimulation |
| #13 | #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11 OR #12 |
| #14 | #7 AND #13 |
| #15 | Clinical trials [MeSH Terms] |
| #16 | Randomized [Title/Abstract] |
| #17 | Randomly [Title/Abstract] |
| #18 | Trial [Title] |
| #19 | #15 OR #16 OR #17 OR #18 |
| #20 | #7 AND #14 AND #19 |
TEAS, transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation.