Ernst E
Department of Complementary Medicine, School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, UK.
Lancet Oncol. 2000 Nov;1:176-80. doi: 10.1016/s1470-2045(00)00031-0.
Many cancer patients use complementary and alternative medicines. Oncologists therefore need to learn more about this subject. Dietary treatments, herbal medicinal products, and various food supplements are currently being promoted as 'cancer cures', but none of these treatments are backed up by convincing clinical evidence. For some interventions, however, the evidence is sufficiently encouraging to warrant further research. Several forms of complementary and alternative medicine play a part in supportive care for cancer patients. The evidence for this approach is still preliminary but, generally speaking, promising. The challenge for the future is to obtain reliable evidence and to identify those approaches that do more good than harm.
许多癌症患者使用补充和替代药物。因此，肿瘤学家需要更多地了解这一主题。目前，饮食疗法、草药产品和各种食品补充剂都被宣传为“癌症疗法”，但这些疗法均未得到令人信服的临床证据支持。然而，对于某些干预措施，证据足以令人鼓舞，值得进一步研究。几种补充和替代医学形式在癌症患者的支持性护理中发挥作用。这种方法的证据仍然是初步的，但总体而言很有前景。未来的挑战是获得可靠的证据，并确定那些利大于弊的方法。
