An education on pharmacologically active complementary and alternative medicine and its effects on cancer treatment: literature review

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Simpson, Ellen
Bernaitis, Nijole
Khan, Sohil
Grant, Gary
Forster, Karly
Anoopkumar-Dukie, Shailendra
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2021
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Supportive Care in Cancer: This literature review examines the provision of an education on pharmacologically active complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs), to people with cancer, their carers and oncology health professionals. Supportive Care in Cancer: A search of the published literature between 2000 and 2020, in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines, was conducted. The search retrieved 1121 studies, 1080 were excluded based on their title or abstract and 26 articles were excluded based on their text. One article was retrieved from the reference lists of the included articles and in total fifteen studies met the inclusion criteria. This review utilised Medical Education Research Quality Instrument (MERSQI) to evaluate the quality of the included studies. Four key outcomes were utilised for analysis and recommendations for future education and/or research were generated. The recommendations were graded according to the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT). Results: This review consistently found that people with cancer, their carers and oncology health professionals derived benefit from a pharmacologically active CAM education and recommends that this population receives one. Conversely, the review found many education formats utilised and no consensus on the most successful methods. Conclusion: Future research should examine who a CAM education should be delivered to, what type of delivery platform is most accessible and useful, and the features of the education that most increase CAM knowledge. The popularity of CAMs amongst people with cancer and the potential dangers associated with their use necessitates further research into how best to communicate CAMs to this population.

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Supportive Care in Cancer

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Psychology

Oncology and carcinogenesis

Specialist studies in education

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Health sciences

Science & Technology

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Oncology

Health Care Sciences & Services

Rehabilitation

Cancer

Education

Complementary and alternative medicine

Oncology health professional

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Simpson, E; Bernaitis, N; Khan, S; Grant, G; Forster, K; Anoopkumar-Dukie, S, An education on pharmacologically active complementary and alternative medicine and its effects on cancer treatment: literature review, Supportive Care in Cancer, 2021

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