October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Keywords: breast cancer
NCCAM has a number of resources available for breast cancer patients considering complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
While there are no proven CAM treatments for cancer, CAM may be useful to relieve the side effects of treatment and to improve quality of life.
Tell your health care provider about any CAM therapy you are using or thinking about. Giving your health care provider a full picture of what you do to manage your health helps you stay in control.
Information
- Thinking About CAM (National Cancer Institute)
- Spanish: Uso de la medicina complementaria y alternativa para el cáncer
- 10 Things To Know About Evaluating Medical Resources on the Web
- Black Cohosh: Herbs at a Glance
Clinical Trials
The following clinical trials are enrolling participants:
- Effects of Hands-on-Healing vs. Touch for Fatigued Breast Cancer Survivors
- Pycnogenol for the Treatment of Lymphedema
- View ALL NCCAM-sponsored breast cancer clinical trials
- View ALL NCCAM-sponsored cancer clinical trials
Selected Publications by NCCAM Grantees
NCCAM has funded many basic and clinical studies related to breast cancer. These articles are examples of the breadth of research we support. To find more articles by NCCAM grantees, search PubMed.
- Correlates of use of different types of complementary and alternative medicine by breast cancer survivors in the nurses' health study.
- A pilot and feasibility study on the effects of naturopathic botanical and dietary interventions on sex steroid hormone metabolism in premenopausal women.
- Adjunctive self-hypnotic relaxation for outpatient medical procedures: a prospective randomized trial with women undergoing large core breast biopsy.
