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1. Complementary and alternative medication includes practices such as massage, acupuncture, tai chi, and drinking green tea. Credit: iStock Complementary and alternative medicine (WEB CAM) is the term for medical items and practices that are not part of standard treatment. is medication that is practiced by health specialists who hold an M.D. ( physician of osteopathy) degree. It is also practiced by other health experts, such as physiotherapists, physician assistants, psychologists, and signed up nurses. Requirement medication may also be called biomedicine or allopathic, Western, mainstream, orthodox, or regular medicine. Some basic healthcare practitioners are likewise specialists of CAM. Complementary medicine is treatments that are utilized in addition to basic medical treatments however are not considered to be standard treatments. Alternative medication is treatments that are used rather of basic medical treatments. One example is using a special diet plan to treat cancer rather of anticancer drugs that are prescribed by an oncologist. Integrative medication is a total approach to healthcare that combines basic medicine with the CAMERA practices that have been shown to be safe and efficient. NCI provides evidence-based PDQ info for numerous WEBCAM therapies in variations for both the client and health expert. Some WEBCAM therapies have actually gone through mindful assessment and have been discovered to be safe and efficient. Nevertheless there are others that have actually been discovered to be ineffective or possibly hazardous. Less is understood about many CAM therapies, and research has been slower for a variety of reasons: Time and funding issues Issues discovering institutions and cancer researchers to deal with on the research studies Regulatory problems CAMERA treatments need to be assessed with the exact same long and mindful research process utilized to evaluate standard treatments. WEBCAM treatments consist of a wide range of botanicals and nutritional items, such as dietary supplements, natural supplements, and vitamins. Numerous of these "natural" items are considered to be safe since they exist in, or produced by, nature. Nevertheless, that is not true in all cases. In addition, some may affect how well other medications work in your body. John's wort, which some individuals use for anxiety, might cause specific anticancer drugs not to work in addition to they should. Herbal supplements may be harmful when taken by themselves, with other compounds, or in big doses. For instance, some studies have actually shown that kava kava, an herb that has been used to assist with stress and anxiety, may trigger liver damage. For instance, some research studies show that high dosages of vitamins, even vitamin C, might impact how chemotherapy and radiation work. Too much of any vitamin is not safe, even in a healthy person. Tell your doctor if you're taking any dietary supplements, no matter how safe you think they are. Even though there may be advertisements or claims that something has actually been used for many years, they do not show that it's safe or reliable. Supplements do not have to be approved by the federal government before being sold to the general public. Likewise, a prescription is not needed to buy them. NCI and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) are currently sponsoring or cosponsoring different medical trials that evaluate CAMERA treatments and therapies in individuals. Some study the results of complementary methods used in addition to standard treatments, and some compare alternative therapies with standard treatments. Discover all cancer WEBCAM clinical trials.