Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by cancer patients, especially women, is increasing. However, CAM use among patients with lung cancer, who have been reported to have the highest ...

Treatment with CAM resulted in a lower 5-year survival (60.1%) than treatment with traditional therapy (85.4%) or a combination of the 2 modalities (81.2%) Women who received complementary and ...

Patients who received a combination of traditional therapies and complementary and alternative medicine were less likely to receive endocrine therapy and radiation versus patients treated exclusively ...

The alternative medicine industry is expanding rapidly, fueled in large part by the surge of health-related content on social media. This growing trend has become an increasing concern for oncology ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Almost half of women who have discontinued hormone therapy for menopause but still have symptoms turn to complementary and alternative medicine, commonly referred to as CAM ...

Complementary and alternative (CAM) approaches are widely used to treat mental health problems in all age groups and in all world regions. Adults who have a mental health problem are significantly ...

More and more pregnant women are hopping on the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) bandwagon — and they have their reasons. Far from a passing fad, such nontraditional therapies have been ...

To our knowledge, this is the first study describing CAM use for symptom management in people with lung cancer, providing important initial data in this population. Slightly less than half of the ...

The combination of traditional therapies and CAM was associated with a higher mortality compared with being treated exclusively with traditional therapy. HealthDay News — While uncommon, use of ...