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A Damkier

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PubMed1998

Nurses' attitudes to the use of alternative medicine in cancer patients.

This study reports results from a questionnaire study on nurses' attitudes to and experiences with alternative medicine, especially related to cancer patients' use of alternative medicine. Sixty nurses from a department of oncology and haematology participated in the study. The response rate was 62%. The nurses primarily perceived the use of alternative medicine as an individual choice which the nurses wanted to support. Sixty-three percent of the nurses indicated that alternative medicine could be useful in the treatment of cancer patients, 32% would sometimes suggest alternative medicine to the patients, and 20% used alternative medicine in their nursing. One-third of the nurses had experienced conflict in connection with alternative medicine and their patients, mostly when established treatment was delayed or refused in favour of alternative medicine. Fifty-three percent of the nurses had tried alternative medicine themselves. This study reveals that nurses are in an ambiguous and complex situation: they are simultaneously professionals in the established health care system, caregivers supporting the patients, and individuals using alternative medicine.

Adult↗
PubMed1994

[Use of Q10 in cancer patients].

The aim of the study was to quantify the use of alternative therapy, and especially the use of coenzyme Q10 in cancer patients. The study was conducted as a cross-sectional questionnaire study. During a two week period all in- and out-patients in the Department of Oncology and Haematology, Odense University Hospital, were asked about their use of alternative treatment. A total of 769 questionnaires were answered, a response rate of 97%. Of these patients 343 (45%) used alternative medicine, and 137 (18%) used coenzyme Q10. The use of alternative medicine and coenzyme Q10 was more frequent in women than in men, and in patients with recurrent disease than in patients with primary disease. A search of the literature revealed no documentation for the use of coenzyme Q10 either as an antineoplastic agent or as an adjunct to antineoplastic therapy. It might be possible that coenzyme Q10 can protect the myocardium from doxorubicin induced damage.

Adult↗
PubMed1991

Cutis laxa: autosomal dominant inheritance in five generations.

Cutis laxa is described in three cases: a 17-year-old man, his mother and his maternal grandmother. The onset of skin symptoms occurred from puberty to early adulthood. The skin was loose-hanging, wrinkled and without elasticity. X-ray examination showed numerous gastrointestinal diverticulae in the two older patients, and both had been operated on for abdominal hernia and genital prolapse. There were no cardiopulmonary symptoms. Histopathological investigation showed a reduction in the amount of elastic tissue in the dermis, but normally localized and ultrastructurally normal components. The family history revealed clinically similar cases in at least five generations, consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance.

Adolescent↗