1 Department of Medical Oncology, Akdeniz University , Antalya, Turkey .
J Palliat Med. 2013 Nov;16(11):1466-76. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2013.0126. Epub 2013 Oct 8.
The widespread impact of cancer worldwide and noncurative treatment methods despite all developments drive patients towards investigating and using nonconventional treatment methods. Herbs, which have an important role in complementary and alternative medicine practices, may cause unfavorable results when used especially with chemotherapeutics in cancer patients due to the substances they contain and due to the properties of some, which still cannot be clarified. Further overshadowing the success of the treatments, patients do not talk about these issues with their doctors and physicians are unable to comprehend these properties of herbs. In this compilation we aimed to clarify the concepts of complementary and alternative medicine, to gather the properties of important and frequently used herbs, and to increase the awareness of physicians on this subject.
癌症在全球的广泛影响和非治愈性的治疗方法，尽管所有的发展都促使患者调查和使用非传统的治疗方法。草药在补充和替代医学实践中起着重要的作用，由于它们所含的物质以及某些草药的特性仍不清楚，因此在癌症患者中与化疗药物一起使用时可能会产生不良后果。更糟糕的是，患者不会与他们的医生谈论这些问题，而医生也无法理解这些草药的特性。在这篇综述中，我们旨在澄清补充和替代医学的概念，收集重要和常用草药的特性，并提高医生对此问题的认识。
