Alternative medicine for cancer patients is used either instead of or parallel to conventional evidence-based treatment. Alternative medicine is based on concepts of cancerogenesis which are not in agreement with modern scientific data and often uses concepts of lay persons for diagnosis and therapy....
These approaches can be an expensive alternative to conventional medicine, often resulting in serious financial hardship. A random survey of 550 cancer patients visiting the Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital (Bhopal, India) was carried out at the time of registration, and again one month later, ...
Recent surveys demonstrate that many patients with cancer use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies at some point after their diagnosis. Therefore, CAM has increasingly been the focus of international research. However, due to insufficient evidence and/or insufficient good quality evidence...
(HealthDay)—One-third of patients with cancer and cancer survivors report using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and many do not disclose use to physicians, according to a research letter published online April 11 inJAMA Oncology. Nina N. Sanford, M.D., from the University of T...
Use of complementary and alternative medicine therapies to control symptoms in women living with lung cancer. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by patients, especially women, is increasing. However, CAM use among patients with , who have been reporte... &NA - 《Cancer Nursing》 ...
MEDICINECANCERBREASTCANCERSafetyBesidesconventionalmedicine;manypatientswithcancerseekcomplementaryandalternativemedicine(CAM)asanadditionaltreatmentoption.Sincetheearly1970s;theuseofCAMincancertreatmenthasexpandedworldwide.CAM;asatemptingoption;wasusedbypatientswithcancermainlyduetoeasyaccessibility.PatientswithcancerusedCAMto...
BackgroundThe use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by cancer patients is very common and varies between populations. The referenced English literature has no local study from Africa on this subject. This study was conducted to define the prevalence, pattern of use, and factors influe...
Sixty-three percent of the nurses indicated that alternative medicine could be useful in the treatment of cancer patients, 32% would sometimes suggest alternative medicine to the patients, and 20% used alternative medicine in their nursing. One-third of the nurses had experienced conflict in ...
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the norm in tumor patients (Burstein, JCO 2000). CAM is most frequently used in breast and prostate cancer patients. The CAM use in lung cancer patients is widely neglected, and systematic studies are scarce in this field. Therefore,...
A veterinary oncologist outlines what every veterinarian should know when counseling owners on complementary and alternative medicine treatments for their cancer patients. Khaligo / stock.adobe.com According to a survey by the Flint Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University, about three-quarters...