Breast cancer survivor

To start with when you say “client” - what do you mean? Are you an acupuncturist, herbalist, just generally interested?

For yourself, I would refer her to an acupuncturist with cancer experience, ideally at your school, and have her receive proper comprehensive care. As you are considering acupuncture as a career, I would ask the practitioner (with permission from your massage patient of course) if you can observe the treatments and if there are ways that you can assist with massage in accordance with what they see is their underlying patterns/issues.

If you get at least that far I would be more than happy to help offer suggestions once you have someone locally who is working with her that isn’t starting from square one. The treatment of anything in Chinese Medicine is generally difficult and requires many years of theory and clinical experience and more life or death issues such as cancer require much, much more. Further, properly done, treatment is tailored to the individual not to “cancer” - so guidance on treatment approaches has to start with far more extensive information that just labeling the condition.