The NTUH survey of terminal cancer patients indicates that more than half of those patients using alternative treatments said that they did not tell their doctor, and 12.3 % indicated that they had completely halted orthodox treatment.
「癌末病人之另類治療行為」報告指出，使用另類治療者中，有超過一半病人表示，過去沒有讓醫師知道自己曾使用這些治療，百分之十二．三表示曾經因為接受這些治療而停止了西醫的治療。