Awareness, Use and Outlook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Options in an Underserved, Uninsured Minority Cancer Patient Population.

ABSTRACT: Integrative oncology aims to coordinate the delivery of conventional medicine and evidence-supported complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to patients receiving cancer care. This field developed out of an increased interest in CAM usage among cancer patients. However, CAM use among medically underserved cancer patients remains to be well characterized. We evaluated CAM awareness as well as prevalence and characteristics of CAM use in 170 consecutive, medically underserved cancer patients presenting to a large, academic, inner-city cancer clinic, using a survey tool. Fifty-three participants declined participation and 17 survey results were incomplete. Therefore, 100 survey results were included in the final analysis. There were 65 males and 35 females in the survey with a mean age o

SUBMITTER: Bari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8724982 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature