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Patients' Interactions With Physicians and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners: Older Women With Breast Cancer and Self-Managed Health Care

Shelley R. Adler, PhD

Department of Family and Community Medicine & Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, adlersh{at}ocim.ucsf.edu

Judith Wrubel, PhD

Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California

Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD

Division of General Internal Medicine & Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California

Harriet Beinfield, LAc

Chinese Medicine Works, San Francisco, California

Older patients are more likely than ever to be under the care of both physicians and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners, yet there is little research on older patients' experience of these different relationships. This article addresses older breast cancer patients' seeking of concurrent care and examines patients' understandings of interactions with physicians and CAM practitioners. This is a qualitative study of a random, population-based sample of 44 older women with breast cancer who are simultaneously under the care of at least 1 physician and 1 CAM practitioner.

Key Words: breast cancer • complementary and alternative medicine • patient—practitioner communication • aging • qualitative research

This version was published on March 1, 2009

Integrative Cancer Therapies, Vol. 8, No. 1, 63-70 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1534735408329410
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