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- Title
SEX DIFFERENCES IN MOTIVES FOR USE OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AMONG CANCER PATIENTS.
- Authors
Hedderson, Monique M.; Patterson, Ruth E.; Neuhouser, Marian L.; Schwartz, Stephen M.; Bowen, Deborah J.; Standish, Leanna J.; Marshall, Lynn M.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the use of contemporary and alternative medicine among cancer patients. Recent studies indicate that 49%- 83% of cancer patients use alternative medicine. One common observation is that among cancer patients, females are more likely to choose alternative therapies than males. Reasons for this difference are not known, although researchers have hypothesized that there may be psychological differences in the way in which men and women cope with a cancer diagnosis.
- Subjects
CANCER patients; SEX differences (Biology); ALTERNATIVE medicine; MEDICINE; ALTERNATIVE approaches in education; THERAPEUTICS; CLINICAL medicine
- Publication
Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine, 2004, Vol 10, Issue 5, p58
- ISSN
1078-6791
- Publication type
Article