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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hospitalized Cancer Patients—Study from Silesia, Poland

Background: The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is common amongst cancer patients. The aim of the study was to investigate the use of CAM, beliefs about CAM and the purpose of using it amongst Polish cancer patients. Methods: The study included 864 cancer patients (median 63 year...

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Autores principales: Kasprzycka, Karolina, Kurzawa, Marta, Kucharz, Malgorzata, Godawska, Monika, Oleksa, Marta, Stawowy, Marta, Slupinska-Borowka, Katarzyna, Sznek, Wiktoria, Gisterek, Iwona, Boratyn-Nowicka, Agnieszka, Rucinska, Monika, Osowiecka, Karolina, Nawrocki, Sergiusz
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35162621
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031600
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author Kasprzycka, Karolina
Kurzawa, Marta
Kucharz, Malgorzata
Godawska, Monika
Oleksa, Marta
Stawowy, Marta
Slupinska-Borowka, Katarzyna
Sznek, Wiktoria
Gisterek, Iwona
Boratyn-Nowicka, Agnieszka
Rucinska, Monika
Osowiecka, Karolina
Nawrocki, Sergiusz
author_facet Kasprzycka, Karolina
Kurzawa, Marta
Kucharz, Malgorzata
Godawska, Monika
Oleksa, Marta
Stawowy, Marta
Slupinska-Borowka, Katarzyna
Sznek, Wiktoria
Gisterek, Iwona
Boratyn-Nowicka, Agnieszka
Rucinska, Monika
Osowiecka, Karolina
Nawrocki, Sergiusz
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description Background: The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is common amongst cancer patients. The aim of the study was to investigate the use of CAM, beliefs about CAM and the purpose of using it amongst Polish cancer patients. Methods: The study included 864 cancer patients (median 63 years old), who were individually interviewed. The questionnaire was designed specifically for this study. Results: Amongst 732 patients who declared that they heard about CAM, 342 patients (46.7%) had used CAM; 91% of these patients had used it as a complementary therapy and 9% had used it as an alternative therapy. Patients younger in age, highly educated, professionally active, with longer medical history, and at more advanced cancer stages have, statistically, used CAM more often; 66% of participants could not state what the health effect of CAM is. Patients received information about CAM from the internet, friends, family and other patients. Only 18% of patients discussed using CAM with a doctor. Conclusions: CAM was popular amongst Polish cancer patients, especially in younger, educated and professionally active patients with longer cancer history at advanced stage. Patients used CAM as a complementary therapy for strengthening immune system, improving morphological and biochemical test parameters, reducing the side effects of conventional therapy and improving their well-being.
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spelling pubmed-88356862022-02-12 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hospitalized Cancer Patients—Study from Silesia, Poland Kasprzycka, Karolina Kurzawa, Marta Kucharz, Malgorzata Godawska, Monika Oleksa, Marta Stawowy, Marta Slupinska-Borowka, Katarzyna Sznek, Wiktoria Gisterek, Iwona Boratyn-Nowicka, Agnieszka Rucinska, Monika Osowiecka, Karolina Nawrocki, Sergiusz Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is common amongst cancer patients. The aim of the study was to investigate the use of CAM, beliefs about CAM and the purpose of using it amongst Polish cancer patients. Methods: The study included 864 cancer patients (median 63 years old), who were individually interviewed. The questionnaire was designed specifically for this study. Results: Amongst 732 patients who declared that they heard about CAM, 342 patients (46.7%) had used CAM; 91% of these patients had used it as a complementary therapy and 9% had used it as an alternative therapy. Patients younger in age, highly educated, professionally active, with longer medical history, and at more advanced cancer stages have, statistically, used CAM more often; 66% of participants could not state what the health effect of CAM is. Patients received information about CAM from the internet, friends, family and other patients. Only 18% of patients discussed using CAM with a doctor. Conclusions: CAM was popular amongst Polish cancer patients, especially in younger, educated and professionally active patients with longer cancer history at advanced stage. Patients used CAM as a complementary therapy for strengthening immune system, improving morphological and biochemical test parameters, reducing the side effects of conventional therapy and improving their well-being. MDPI 2022-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8835686/ /pubmed/35162621 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031600 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Kurzawa, Marta
Kucharz, Malgorzata
Godawska, Monika
Oleksa, Marta
Stawowy, Marta
Slupinska-Borowka, Katarzyna
Sznek, Wiktoria
Gisterek, Iwona
Boratyn-Nowicka, Agnieszka
Rucinska, Monika
Osowiecka, Karolina
Nawrocki, Sergiusz
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hospitalized Cancer Patients—Study from Silesia, Poland
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title_short Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hospitalized Cancer Patients—Study from Silesia, Poland
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35162621
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031600
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