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Article: Attitudes toward alternative therapies differ by gender and onocology profession.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- April 30, 2004
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2004 APR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Attitudes toward alternative therapies differ by gender and onocology health profession.
The knowledge and attitude of professional oncologists "toward complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), classified according to their primary application as complementary or alternative methods" is reported in this study, wrote investigators in Norway.
A "national, multicentre survey of 828 Norwegian oncologists, nurses, clerks and therapeutic radiographers" was conducted in June 2002, achieving a response rate of 61%. "Only a few physicians (4%) described their reactions to alternative medicine as positive compared ...