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2012
DOI: 10.11144/javeriana.sc17-3.pbca
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Plant-based Complementary and alternative medicine used by breast cancer patients at the Hospital Universitario San Ignacio in Bogotá, Colombia.

Abstract: Summary. The present study estimates the frequency of the use of plant-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by breast cancer patients. From June to December of 2011, a self-administered questionnaire was given to 404 breast cancer patients receiving outpatient therapy at the Javeriana Oncology Center of the Hospital Universitario San Ignacio in Bogotá. The prevalence of patient CAM use was 57%, out of which 76% was based on plants like anamú, aloe, red fruits and soursop. Sixty-five percent of th… Show more

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“…This is similar to others study where most of breast cancer patients do not seek advice from the medical practitioner about the CAM they want to use. 13,25,33 Therefore, it is important for health personnel to ask about CAM was used by patients during cancer treatment and educate patients about the potential dangers of CAM if they used them as treatment primarily as treatment because the benefits of CAM use were unproven. …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is similar to others study where most of breast cancer patients do not seek advice from the medical practitioner about the CAM they want to use. 13,25,33 Therefore, it is important for health personnel to ask about CAM was used by patients during cancer treatment and educate patients about the potential dangers of CAM if they used them as treatment primarily as treatment because the benefits of CAM use were unproven. …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Terapi ini merupakan alternative cost-effective untuk penyembuhan luka yang menyediakan berbagai efek terapeutik yang merangsang proses penyembuhan dan meningkatkan kualitas kulit baru (Pereira & Bartolo, 2013). Penelitian yang telah dilakukan Diaz, Torregrosa, Benítez, Mercado, & Fiorentino (2012) penggunaan complementary alternative medicine (CAM) berbasis tanaman (herbal dan buah-buahan) bahwa 65% dari pasien memiliki persepsi keseluruhan yang posisitf tentang kondisi mereka dan bahkan menunjukkan peningkatan kesehatan. Terapi komplementer sering digunakan antara lain madu (Haryanto et al, 2012;Mukai et al, 2015), minyak kelapa (Tarawan, Mantilidewi, Dhini, Radhiyanti, & Sutedja, 2017), daun sirih (Maryunis, 2017), dan buah naga merah (Tahir et al, 2017).…”
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“…Folha (16) Garrafada (16) Mama (6) 9 . Apenas a Petiveria alliacea não foi citada no presente estudo.…”
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“…No estudo de Colômbia o método mais comum da ingestão foi na forma da planta fresca 9 . Também foi observado que os usuários utilizavam para o consumo xarope, pomadas e cápsulas a partir de produtos a base de plantas medicinais, mas com menos prevalência.…”
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