What percentage of the people use complementary medicine?

Question

i read somewhere:

"A quarter of the population and close to 100% of cancer patients use complementary medicine"

is that true?

Answer 1

David G, Well intersting you make such a generalisation, I wonder if your knowledge of alternative medicine is as articulate as your speach: and, and, and.

In the United States, 36% of adults are using some form of Complementary & Alt. Medicine. When megavitamin therapy and prayer specifically for health reasons are included in the definition of CAM, that number rises to 62%.

Answer 2

who cares?

it doesn't work and it's used only as a placebo by desperate patients and doctors and hypochondriacs

Answer 3

the numbers you have are quite correct and here are two articles that backup the statements:

for the general population

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/8...

and for the cancer patients

http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/full...