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16336134

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11-12
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-12-12
pubmed:abstractText
When a prominent Australian politician, the then Premier of Tasmania, The Honourable Jim Bacon, publicly announced in February 2004 that he had lung cancer, he was inundated with well-wishing communications sent by post, email and other means. They included 157 items of correspondence recommending a wide variety of complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs). The most common CAMs recommended were meditation, Chinese medicine, "glyconutrients", juices, Laetrile and various diets and dietary supplements. Although proof of benefit exists or promising preliminary laboratory studies have been carried out for a small number of the recommendations, no scientific evaluation has been performed for most of these treatments. Their potential benefits and harms are not known. Several recommendations were for treatments known to be useless, harmful or fraudulent. Bacon's experience suggests that cancer patients may receive unsolicited advice to adopt one or more forms of CAM. Both patients and practitioners need access to authoritative evidence-based information about the benefits and dangers of CAMs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0025-729X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
183
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
576-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Public illness: how the community recommended complementary and alternative medicine for a prominent politician with cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Royal Hobart Hospital, GPO Box 1061 L, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia. r.m.lowenthal@utas.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article