- By Disease - Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Clinical
Trials - Screening & Detection - Supportive Care Complementary
and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Treatment (PDQ®) - Questions
and Answers About Complementary and Alternative Medicine in
Cancer Treatment - Changes to This Summary (04/11/2013) - About
PDQ - Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a group of
diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products
that are not presently considered to be part of conventional
medicine (see Question 1). - It is important that the same
scientific evaluation that is used to assess conventional
approaches be used to evaluate CAM therapies (see Question 4). -
The National Cancer Institute and the National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine are sponsoring or
cosponsoring various clinical trials (research studies with
people) to study CAM therapies for cancer (see Question 6). - It
is important that patients inform all of their health care
providers about any therapies they are