Jean A. Ridgeway, DNP, APN, NP-C, AOCN

Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the department of hematology/oncology at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois

Opening Up the Alternative Medicine Dialogue Sunday, November 1st, 2015
The use of alternative, complementary, and integrative treatments among cancer patients is high: In a 2011 study, 65 percent of Americans who had been diagnosed with cancer reported using complementary or alternative approaches – compared with 52.5 percent of people without a cancer diagnosis.1 What falls under the umbrella of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)? [...]