Attitudes of Patients With Gynecological and Breast Cancer Toward Integration of Complementary Medicine in Cancer Care

Conclusion:
Although patients with gynecological malignancies use CAM significantly more than patients with breast cancer, both groups share similar conceptions regarding the active role of their gynecologist oncologists in the process of CAM integration within supportive care and expect CAM consultation to focus on improving their well-being.

Pilot Program to Personalize Care & Improve Quality of Life for Women With Recurrent Ovarian Cancer - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov (CAM)

 This study is currently recruiting participants.

Verified on August 2011

First Received on August 16, 2011.   Last Updated on August 17, 2011
Purpose

The purpose of this study is to find out if complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) should be included with traditional therapy for women with recurrent ovarian cancer. Some of the alternative medicines include non-traditional drug and herbal therapies along with dietary and nutritional strategies. Only a few of these alternative medicines have been tested with women with ovarian cancer.

Cancer Causes and Control - Dietary calcium and magnesium intake in relation to cancer incidence and mortality in a German prospective cohort

"This prospective cohort study provides no strong evidence to support that high dietary calcium and magnesium intake in the intake range observed in a German population may reduce cancer incidence or mortality."

abstract: Vitamin/mineral supplementation and cancer, cardiovascular, and all-cause mortality in a German prospective cohort (EPIC-Heidelberg)

Cancer patients' experiences of using complementary therapies: polarization and integration

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FR Doc 2010-8386 Falsification of Data- complentary and alternative medicine NCCAM

U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Findings of Research Misconduct
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.

"...research  misconduct in research supported by National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), National Institutes of Health (NIH),
grant R01 AT001846 and Predoctoral Fellowship Award F31 AT003977-01,
and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK), NIH, grant R01 DK082773-01."