Complementary/alternative medicine use in a comprehensive cancer center and the implications for oncology.

By M. Richardson, T. Sanders, J. L. Palmer, A. Greisinger, S. Singletary. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2000

1,061 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Complementary and alternative medicine, Oncology

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• From cancer patient to cancer survivor : lost in transition (2006, background): “Individuals with cancer frequently use CAM products with the belief that their use will arrest their disease, alleviate symptoms, promote wellbeing, and increase their sense of control over their health (Burstein, 2000; Richardson et al., 2000; Antman et al., 2001).”
• Powerful Pharma and Its Marginalized Alternatives?: Effects of Individual Differences in Conspiracy Mentality on Attitudes Toward Medical Approaches (2018, background): “…toward alternative medicine (Siahpush, 1999) Faith in natural remedies Faith in natural remedies linked to a stronger use of CAM (e.g., Begbie et al., 1996; Richardson et al., 2000) Conspiracy beliefs Medical conspiracy beliefs were linked to a more frequent use of CAM (Oliver & Wood, 2014) Notes.”
• Exploring Willingness to Participate in Clinical Trials by Ethnicity (2017, background): “Recent studies have found that high percentages of cancer patients use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in conjunctions with their treatment, although many report not communicating this to their doctors for fear of admonishment [17–19].”
• How Many Cancer Patients Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2012, methodology): “The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The review was funded by grants from the FP5 project “Concerted Action for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Assessment in the Cancer Field (CAM-Cancer)”; Quality”
• Use of complementary and alternative medicine in cancer patients: a European survey. (2005, background): “Spiritual therapies, prayer as a therapy, massage, shark cartilage, green tea, support groups and non-traditional diets are also commonly reported in the literature [6, 9, 11, 14, 15].”
• Complementary and alternative medicine: use and disclosure in radiation oncology community practice (2011, background): “The largest survey we found with cancer patients (n=453) reported that 69% of cancer patients used some form of CAM therapy as part of their cancer treatment [41] and, in a systematic review of 26 surveys from 13 countries, the average frequency of CAM use by cancer patients was 31.”