J Altern Complement Med. 2001 Jun; 7(3): 281-7.

Surveys of complementary and alternative medicine: Part II. Use of alternative and complementary cancer therapies.

Sparber A, Wootton JC.

Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. asparber@nih.gov

The second part of this series on surveys of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States provides a "point-of-information" summary of the studies on patients with cancer and their use of CAM therapies. Surveys of patients with cancer were the precursors of the recent wave of studies on CAM prevalence and use. Three tables summarize the findings from a total of 18 surveys categorized by Childhood Cancer, Adult Cancer, and Breast Cancer studies.