Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as Part of the Oncological Treatment: Survey about Patients' Attitude towards CAM in a University-Based Oncology Center in Germany.

INTRODUCTION:To understand if and which patients would be open-minded to Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use parallel to their oncological treatment. Moreover, we sought to determine which methods are most accepted and which are the primary motivators to use CAM. METHODS:We developed an...

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Main Authors: Kerstin A Kessel, Sabrina Lettner, Carmen Kessel, Henning Bier, Tilo Biedermann, Helmut Friess, Peter Herrschbach, Jürgen E Gschwend, Bernhard Meyer, Christian Peschel, Roland Schmid, Markus Schwaiger, Klaus-Dietrich Wolff, Stephanie E Combs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5094772?pdf=render