Use of complementary/alternative medicine by Brazilian oncologists

8196 \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \(\underline{\mathrm{Background}}\) \end{document}: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is defined as “drugs or therapeutic methods that are not included in the accepted orthodox biomedical framework of care for cancer patients” (Paltiel, J Clin Oncol 2001;19(9):2439–2448). We conducted an extensive survey among Brazilian cancer physicians to understand their attitude toward CAM. Methods: We sent a questionnaire to all the 657 members of Brazillian Cancer Society addressing their knowledge and attitudes concerning CAM, whether they used to ask their patients about their use of CAM, which were the various practices of CAM known by these doctors and the possible reasons that lead them to indicate or not CAM to their patients. We also questioned them regarding their degree of awareness of CAM self administration by their patients. Results: ...