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See Latest ArticlesDo cancer patients with a poor prognosis use complementary and alternative medicine more often than others?
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 02/02/09
Kristoffersen AE et al. - Data suggest that use of a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapist and use of self-support/CAM techniques might be associated with less hope of cure given by the physician in cancer survivors.
Methods- Aim was to explore whether use of CAM is associated with survival prognosis in long-term survivors of cancer
- Cancer pts who were alive for ≥5 yrs after diagnosis
- One group with <20% and another group with 40%–60% expected 5-yr survival at the time of diagnosis
- 735 pts received a 4-page postal questionnaire about CAM use; response rate was 54%
- Results were reported at 5 levels of CAM use
- Poor prognosis group reported CAM use more often vs better prognosis group
- This was only significantly higher at CAM level 2 and in use of self-support/CAM techniques
- Use of over-the-counter (OTC) dietary supplements and use of diet as treatment were not different between the groups
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