Table 3.
Prevalence and patterns of treatments
| Variables | No. of patients n(%) |
Western medicine n(%) |
Chinese medicine n(%) | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 786(100) | 337(42.9) | 449(57.1) | |
| Conventional treatment | 781(99.4) | 337(100) | 444(98.9) | 0.052 |
| Surgery | 453(57.6) | 196(58.2) | 257(57.2) | 0.796 |
| Chemotherapy | 501(63.7) | 184(54.6) | 317(70.6) | < 0.001 |
| Radiotherapy | 487(62.0) | 208(61.7) | 279(62.1) | 0.905 |
| Endocrine therapy | 84(10.7) | 36(10.7) | 48(10.7) | 0.997 |
| Palliative therapy | 12(1.5) | 1(0.3) | 11(2.4) | 0.015 |
| Chinese medicine | 449(57.1) | --- | 449(100) | --- |
| treatment | 424(53.9) | --- | 424(94.4) | |
| Chinese Herbal Medicine | 21(2.7) | --- | 21(4.7) | |
| Acupuncture and Moxibustion | 11(1.4) | --- | 11(2.4) | |
| Therapeutic Massage | 40(5.1) | --- | 40(8.9) | |
| Qigong | 75(9.5) | --- | 75(16.7) | |
| Chinese Dietary Therapy | ||||
Data are presented as the actual number of patients (percentage in that group) who received Western medicine and Chinese medicine treatments.