Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Cancer patients' attitudes towards Chinese medicine: a Hong Kong survey. | Chinese Medicine BioMed Central Research Cancer patients attitudes towards Chinese medicine a Hong Kong survey Yuen-chi Lam1 Chung-wah Cheng1 Heng Peng2 Chun-key Law3 Xianzhang Huang1 and Zhaoxiang Bian 1 Open Access Address 1School of Chinese Medicine Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong SAR China 2Department of Mathematics Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong SAR China and 3Department of Clinical Oncology Queen Elizabeth Hospital Hong Kong SAR China Email Yuen-chi Lam - cmedricky@ Chung-wah Cheng - hollie_cheng@ Heng Peng - hpeng@ Chun-key Law - lawck@ Xianzhang Huang - xz3323@ Zhaoxiang Bian - bzxiang@ Corresponding author Published 30 December 2009 Received 19 March 2009 Accepted 30 December 2009 Chinese Medicine 2009 4 25 doi 86 1749-8546-4-25 This article is available from http content 4 1 25 2009 Lam et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background This article reports a survey conducted in Hong Kong on the cancer patients attitudes towards Chinese medicine treatment. Methods Cancer patients from three Chinese medicine clinics and one oncology clinic were interviewed with a structured questionnaire. Results Of a total of 786 participants included in the study used Western medicine only used at least one form of Chinese medicine 5 participants used Chinese medicine only and used Chinese medicine before during after Western medicine treatment. Commonly used Western medicine and Chinese medicine treatments included chemotherapy radiotherapy surgery Chinese herbal medicine and Chinese dietary therapy . Participants receiving chemotherapy used Chinese medicine
