Use of complementary and alternative medicine: A multicenter cross-sectional study in 1089 melanoma patients

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• 作者：Carmen Loquai^a ; ¹ ; ^{carmen.loquai@unimedizin-mainz.de} ; Dagmar Dechent^b ; ¹ ; Marlene Garzarolli^c ; Martin Kaatz^d ; Katharina C. Kaehler^e ; Peter Kurschat^f ; Frank Meiss^g ; Oliver Micke^h ; Ralph Mueckeⁱ ; Karsten Muenstedt^j ; Annette Stein^k ; Dorothé ; e Nashan^l ; Christoph Stoll^m ; Irene Schmidtmannⁿ ; Jutta Huebner^o
• 关键词：Complementary and alternative medicine ; Melanoma ; Patient needs
• 刊名：European Journal of Cancer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：71
• 期：Complete
• 页码：70-79
• 全文大小：497 K
• 卷排序：71

文摘

About 40% of patients with melanoma are interested in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and nearly 20% use CAM. Most often used CAMs are supplements and other substance-bound methods. Most often used sources of information are family and print media. Aims are to strengthen body and immune system or to do something for oneself. Using CAM is associated with believing stress to cause cancer.