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Moving Alternative Medicine into Evidence-Based Medicine in the 21stCentury: Study in Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine Takes aFirst Step Nearly seven in ten cancer patients in the U.S. have used complementary oralternative medicine, most often in combination with conventionaltherapies. Surveys across 13 countries indicate that complementary andalternative treatments are used by 7 to 64 percent of all cancer patients.Reports of extraordinary survival ascribed to such therapies have longbeen made, but full and formal medical documentation of these results istoo often lacking.

Answer: This is potentially a landmark in the history of alternative cancertreatment.

It is a small step towards making sure that cancer patients get the kind ofinformation they should have been able to expect from anyone offering themtreatment all along.

It may also help start the process of weeding out ineffective treatments, ifthis kind of data (only with more thorough documentation) is expected as abare minimum that any alternative cancer clinic or practitioner provides totheir patients.

It might even allow the determination of which AM cancer treatment seems towork best, ie which are worthy of further study.