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A stunning one-third of people with a cancer diagnosis use complementary and alternative medicines. Researchers also found that 29 percent of people who use complementary and alternative medicine did not tell their physicians. Many survey respondents said they did not say anything because their doctors did not ask, or they did not think their doctors needed to know. Perhaps the anamosity between “traditional” medicine and “Complementary and Alternative” medicine is a factor. “Traditional” medicine may be reaping what they have sewn–avoidance of their animosity against all that is not “traditional” medicine. Herbal supplements were the most common alternative medicine and chiropractic, or osteopathic manipulation, was the second most common, according to analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health Interview Survey. Source: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/alternative-medicine.html
A stunning one-third of people with a cancer diagnosis use complementary and alternative medicines. Researchers also found that 29 percent of people who use complementary and alternative medicine did not tell their physicians.
Many survey respondents said they did not say anything because their doctors did not ask, or they did not think their doctors needed to know. Perhaps the anamosity between “traditional” medicine and “Complementary and Alternative” medicine is a factor. “Traditional” medicine may be reaping what they have sewn–avoidance of their animosity against all that is not “traditional” medicine.
Herbal supplements were the most common alternative medicine and chiropractic, or osteopathic manipulation, was the second most common, according to analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health Interview Survey.
Source: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/alternative-medicine.html