Talking to your family doctor about complementary and alternative
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Talking to your family doctor about complementary and alternative
DÉPARTEMENT D’ÉPIDÉMIOLOGIE CLINIQUE ET D’ÉTUDES COMMUNAUTAIRES PRÉSENTE: DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY STUDIES PRESENTS: Une étude sans résultats / Study protocol with no results Maida Sewitch, MSc, PhD Talking to your family doctor about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) Assistant Professor of Medicine, McGill University; Associate Member DCECS and Dept of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill ********************************************* DATE ET HEURE / DATE AND TIME Jeudi le 25 mars de 12:00 à 13:00 Thursday March 25 from 12:00 to 13:00 ENDROIT / LOCATION Psychiatrie, local: 3220 / Psychiatry, Room: 3220 Centre hospitalier de St-Mary / St. Mary’s Hospital Center Un léger dîner sera servi / A light lunch will be served Bienvenue à tous / Everyone is welcome Abstract Cancer patients who are using or considering CAM might benefit from discussing with their physicians their decisions and desires to use specific CAM therapies since some CAMs may interfere with or be harmful when used simultaneously with traditional cancer treatment. Despite the potential benefits of such discussions and the fact that up to 82% of Canadian cancer patients use CAM, patient-physician CAM discussions do not routinely occur. The purpose of our pilot study is to gain insight into patient and physician perspectives on CAM discussions that occur (or not) in the overall care of cancer patients by family medicine physicians. This talk will present preliminary data from our first patient focus group and some of the problems we are encountering with completing the study.