Responding to Patients' Questions About Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine

Decision-making about complementary and alternative medicine by cancer patients: integrative literature review

BACKGROUND Patients with cancer consistently report conflict and anxiety when making decisions about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment. To design evidence-informed decision-support strategies, a better understanding is needed of how the decision-making process unfolds for these patients during their experience with cancer. We undertook this study to review the research lite...

The health system approach to the complementary and alternative medicine

Since different nations have emphasized reusing their traditional methods in medicine over the last two decades, and the World Health Organization’s recent approach has also focused on restoring traditional medicine in different parts of the world, those methods that are more compatible with the popular culture of a country should be considered. In our country, the traditional medicine, with it...

Complementary, alternative, integrative, or unconventional medicine?

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center. The Schwartz Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery, which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and sustenance to the healing process. The center sponsors the...

Complementary and alternative medicine patients are talking about: black cohosh.

OCTOBER 2005 • VOLUME 9, NUMBER 5 • CLINICAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY NURSING CDR Colleen O. Lee, RN, MS, AOCN ®, is a practice assessment program manager in the Offi ce of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD. (Mention of specifi c products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of...

Complementary and alternative medicine patients are talking about: lycopene.