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Kidney Cancer Integrative Oncology: Possible Options for Care
This study aims to review how complementary and integrative medicine (CIM), defined as therapies utilizing nutrition, physical activity, herbs, supplements, mind-body therapies, homeopathy, and other non-traditional therapies, can address the prevention, treatment, side effects, and recurrence of kidney cancer. This review discusses advances and discoveries in research, gaps in research, current debates on the subject, and directions for future research. We queried Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed databases using the search terms kidney cancer, integrative medicine, integrative oncology, nutrition, supplements, treatment, preventio...
Source: Current Oncology Reports - July 19, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

Complementary and alternative medicine in oncology: knowledge, attitude and practice among Tunisian healthcare workers
ConclusionThe majority of HCWs had a positive attitude towards the use of CAM in oncology despite their poor knowledge about it. Our study emphasizes the need to train HCWs dealing with cancer patients on CAM.
Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology - July 4, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

Lay etiology concepts of cancer patients do not correlate with their usage of complementary and/or alternative medicine
ConclusionWhile physicians are trained to derive treatment strategies from etiological concepts, lay people choosing CAM do not follow these rules, which may point to other needs of patients addressed by CAM.
Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology - January 18, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

Complementary and alternative medicine in cancer patients: characteristics of use and interactions with antineoplastic agents
ConclusionOur results reveal a high incidence of interactions between CAM and antineoplastic agents. The most frequent CAM were herbal products. Family and friends were the primary sources of information that led patients to start taking CAM, and more than half of the patients did not tell their doctor that they were taking CAM.
Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology - July 6, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

Determinants of use of oral complementary-alternative medicine among women with early breast cancer:  a focus on cancer-related fatigue
ConclusionOne-in-four patients reported use of OCAM. More severe CRF was consistently associated with its use. Moreover, older, better educated, wealthier, more anxious women, and those receiving chemotherapy seemed more prone to use OCAM. Characterizing profiles of BC patients more frequently resorting to OCAM may help deliver targeted information about its benefits and potential risks.
Source: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment - September 24, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

Evaluating the Demand for Integrative Medicine Practices in Breast and Gynecological Cancer Patients
Conclusion: There is a considerable demand for integrative medicine among breast and gynecological cancer patients. Our results underline the need for the implementation of evidence-based integrative treatments in cancer care in order to meet the standards of modern oncology.Breast Care
Source: Breast Care - October 24, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

Use of non-conventional medicine two years after cancer diagnosis in France: evidence from the VICAN survey
ConclusionThis is the first study on NCM use 2  years after cancer diagnosis in France. In nearly half of the NCM users, cancer diagnosis was one of the main factors which incited patients to use NCM. Apart from the NCM users’ socioeconomic profile, the present results show that impaired health was a decisive factor: opting for unconventional approaches was therefore a pragmatic response to needs which conventional medicine fails to meet during the course of the disease.Implications for Cancer SurvivorsBetter information of patients and caregivers is needed to allow access to these therapies to a larger population of survivors.
Source: Journal of Cancer Survivorship - January 31, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research

A French survey on the resort of oral alternative complementary medicines used in children with cancer.
CONCLUSIONS: The use of oral CAM in this survey was common. For most parents, this use was effective and appreciated because they generated fewer side effects than conventional treatments. However, doctors were not systematically informed of this use. This is problematic because some CAM such as herbal supplements could potentially cause interactions with cancer treatments. More information about CAM is necessary in pediatric onco-hematology. PMID: 26387822 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Bulletin du Cancer - September 17, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Philibert C, Hoegy D, Philippe M, Marec-Bérard P, Bleyzac N Tags: Bull Cancer Source Type: research

Complementary and alternative medicine for cancer patients: results of the EPAAC survey on integrative oncology centres in Europe
Conclusions Mapping of the centres across Europe is an essential step in the process of creating a European network of centres, experts and professionals constantly engaged in the field of integrative oncology, in order to increase, share and disseminate the knowledge in this field and provide evidence-based practice.
Source: Supportive Care in Cancer - December 4, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research