This PDQ cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about the complementary and alternative therapies found in other PDQ summaries and NCI Fact Sheets. It is intended as a resource to inform and assist clinicians who care for cancer patients. It does not provide formal guidelines or recommendations for making health care decisions.
This summary is reviewed regularly and updated as necessary by the PDQ Integrative, Alternative, and Complementary Therapies Editorial Board, which is editorially independent of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The summary reflects an independent review of the literature and does not represent a policy statement of NCI or the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Keywords: complementary or alternative medicine procedure; alternative medicine procedure.