Table 2.
CAM Use During or After Initial Cancer Treatment for Each Cancer Type.
| Cancer Type | CAM Use by CAM Therapy Category, n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any CAM | MBM | DS | BBT | EM | |
| All (N = 603) | 514 (85.2) | 236 (39.1) | 437 (72.5) | 181 (30.0) | 294 (48.8) |
| Breast (n = 283) | 262 (92.6) | 148 (52.3) | 231 (81.6) | 120 (42.4) | 156 (55.1) |
| Prostate (n = 164) | 127 (77.4) | 26 (15.9) | 103 (62.8) | 23 (14.0) | 66 (40.2) |
| Colorectal (n = 87) | 72 (82.8) | 38 (43.7) | 63 (72.4) | 22 (25.3) | 45 (51.7) |
| Lung (n = 69) | 53 (76.8) | 24 (34.8) | 40 (58.0) | 16 (23.2) | 27 (39.1) |
Abbreviations: CAM, complementary and alternative medicine; MBM, mind-body medicine; DS, dietary supplement; BBT, body-based therapy; EM, energy medicine.