Ernst E, Pittler M H, Wider B, Boddy K
Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Exeter, UK.
Support Care Cancer. 2007 May;15(5):565-8. doi: 10.1007/s00520-006-0174-y. Epub 2006 Nov 9.
The aim of this article is to compare the evidence relating to the effectiveness of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) in palliative cancer care as it existed in 2000 and 2005.
Our comparison is based on systematic reviews using the same methodology at these two points in time.
The results reveal a buoyant research activity in this sector. Consequently, new evidence for 19 CAM modalities has emerged between 2000 and 2005. For some treatments, the evidence is encouraging but for very few, it is as yet fully convincing.
It follows that further research is warranted, particularly in areas where the data already looks encouraging.
本文旨在比较2000年和2005年存在的关于补充/替代医学(CAM)在癌症姑息治疗中有效性的证据。
我们的比较基于在这两个时间点使用相同方法进行的系统评价。
结果显示该领域研究活动活跃。因此,2000年至2005年间出现了19种补充/替代医学模式的新证据。对于某些治疗方法,证据令人鼓舞,但只有极少数证据具有充分说服力。
因此,有必要进行进一步研究,特别是在数据已显示出令人鼓舞的领域。