Unproved cancer remedies. A survey of use in pediatric outpatients.
Sixty-nine patients or parents of patients were interviewed during a five-week period. Each interviewee was given a questionnaire listing commonly recommended unproved drugs, diets, and miscellaneous treatments, and was instructed to respond to each remedy as follows: Have you tried it? Have you considered trying it? Has it been recommended by someone else? Six patients (8.7%) had tried at least one unproved remedy, four (5.8%) considered trying some other remedy, and recommendations to seek other remedies had been made to 17 patients (24.6%). Laetrile and assistance from faith healers were the remedies named most frequently.
D000367:Age Factors; D000678:Amygdalin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D009671:Nostrums / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011781:Quackery; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013781:Texas
D009671:Nostrums; D000678:Amygdalin