TY  - JOUR
AU  - Käsmann, Lukas
AU  - Gurtner, Ralph
AU  - Rennollet, Robert
AU  - Büntzel, Judith
AU  - Micke, Oliver
AU  - Belka, Claus
AU  - Pazos, Montserrat
AU  - Mücke, Ralph
AU  - Rauch, Josefine
AU  - Hübner, Jutta
TI  - Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Use in Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy: Sex-specific Prevalence and Associations of Use Based on the S3 Guideline Complementary Medicine in Oncology Questionnaire.
JO  - In vivo
VL  - 39
IS  - 5
SN  - 0258-851X
CY  - Kapandriti, Attiki
PB  - IIAR
M1  - DKFZ-2025-01802
SP  - 2969 - 2975
PY  - 2025
AB  - This study aimed to assess the sex-specific prevalence and patterns of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use in patients undergoing radiotherapy, using the standardized questionnaire developed as part of the S3 Guideline on Complementary Medicine in Oncology.Between August and December 2022, 112 out of 697 eligible cancer patients receiving radiotherapy were prospectively enrolled and completed a structured questionnaire assessing CAM use. The questionnaire included 38 CAM methods classified according to their potential for interactions.Female participants generally used more CAM methods than male participants (median methods: 3 vs. 1, p<0.001). The most frequently used CAM methods were vitamin D (46.4
KW  - Humans
KW  - Complementary Therapies: methods
KW  - Complementary Therapies: statistics & numerical data
KW  - Male
KW  - Female
KW  - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Neoplasms: radiotherapy
KW  - Neoplasms: epidemiology
KW  - Aged
KW  - Adult
KW  - Prevalence
KW  - Sex Factors
KW  - Radiotherapy: methods
KW  - Complementary and alternative medicine (Other)
KW  - cancer care (Other)
KW  - interactions (Other)
KW  - patient-physician communication (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40877141
DO  - DOI:10.21873/invivo.14097
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/304248
ER  -