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Show Page Six - The Pyramid - December 1, 1999 Follow practical medication guidelines discussing what therapies might be harmful, helpful, or which ones might simply make one feel cancer patients need not shun better without affecting the cannontraditional health or medicine cer treatment. vitamins such as or Not all information on the approaches herbs, but should follow some Internet is created equal. Whenever looking on the Internet for a guidelines to avoid unnecessary risks and make intelligent choices carefully treatment, possible about care. consider the source. Anyone can "Given the power of the post an Internet site. Internet and what seems to be a The first thing to consider is interest who is sponsoring the site. Be growing many people have in taking charge of health wary of individuals with no care decisions, cancer specialists specialized knowledge in the field are finding a greater number of they are addressing. patients who are inquiring about While they may raise interestand alternative complementary ing questions to investigate furmedicine approaches," says Char-lot- ts ther, these sites are really no Jacobs, MD, professor of different from asking a friend or medicine and director of SUMC neighbor for an opinion. Also be Clinical Cancer Center. of Web pages put out by A study recently published in wary commercial firms, these are the American Cancer Societys advertising. essentially journal Cancer found that about On the other hand, one-thir- d of cancer patients use organizations, such a.i the such nontraditional approaches as American Cancer Society (ACS) meditation, reflexology, botanical or the National Institutes of medicine, food supplements or Health (NIH), post information homeopathy. that has been carefully reviewed Jacobs offers some suggesby appropriate experts. tions that might help patients A good source of information address nontraditional approaches on nontraditional medicine is the in partnership with a cancer National Center for Complemenspecialist or family physician. tary and Alternative Medicines Web site, http:nccam.nih.gov. First, patients should distinIndividuals should not assume guish between alternative medicine, which people may turn to to that because a product is labeled replace traditional therapies and "herb" or "vitamin" that it is necessarily gentle and harmless. complementary medicine, which Vitamins often are gentle in small embodies a range of therapies, such as meditation and biofeedquantities, but in megadoses, they can become powerful chemicals back, designed to help people that cause side effects similar to conillness and with better cope those which might be caused by trol symptoms. One shouldnt be embarrassed potent prescription medications. Some potential side effects to tell a doctor that one is considfrom large doses of vitamins may ering complementary approaches. 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For further information call Barbara at ing has been tested in a study by independent scientists involving a large number of patients or volunteers. Treatments that are recommended by national organizations, such as the ACS or the NIH, have been through such testing or are clearly marked as preliminary and are awaiting such testing. The information brochures medications that accompany contain results of scientific testing. Tests at compare the results of people who are using the medicine or treatment with similar people who arent help rule out coincidences and better enable scientists to understand if the treatment is working. Individuals need to remember that unlike traditional medications, which require detailed listing of contents and quantities, many products sold as alternative remedies arent as carefully labeled and may not legally require the same degree of monitoring. 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