Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM) often promoted and utilized as a non-integral part of conventional medicine has diverse modalities and variegated application. To choose among the alternatives in a comparable situation the decision process is complex and dependent on many factors...

Despite notions that patients are now playing a more proactive role in directing their own health care, our study of breast cancer patients considering adjuvant therapy indicates that, at least for a life-threatening illness, patients still rely heavily on their physicians to make treatment...