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
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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.