Trends in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Patients with Prostate Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We explored the prevalence and trends of self-reported complementary and alternative medicine use among patients with prostate cancer using CaPSURE™ (Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor).

Materials and methods

A total of 7,989 CaPSURE participants completed questionnaires between 1996 and 2016 on the use of nearly 70 complementary and alternative medicine types. Participants were defined as users if they indicated that they had ever used complementary and alternative medicines. To evaluate trends among 7,696 patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer we considered complementary and alternative medicine use within 24 months of diagnosis and calculated the percent change in complementary and alternative medicine use between groups defined by

SUBMITTER: Zuniga KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7017721 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature