Table 2 Clinical characteristics of the study participants by CAM use condition
From: Use of complementary and alternative medicine by cancer patients in Colombia
Characteristics | CAM users | CAM non-users | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | p-value | |
Type of cancera | |||||||
Hematological malignancies | 159 | 9.9 | 237 | 15.7 | 396 | 12.7 | < 0.001 |
Solid tumors | 1451 | 90.1 | 1270 | 84.3 | 2721 | 87.3 | |
Clinical stage | |||||||
Localized | 739 | 45.9 | 716 | 47.5 | 1455 | 46.7 | 0.422 |
Regional | 301 | 18.7 | 248 | 16.5 | 549 | 17.6 | |
Distant | 425 | 26.4 | 401 | 26.6 | 826 | 26.5 | |
Unknown | 145 | 9.0 | 142 | 9.4 | 287 | 9.2 | |
Treatmentb | |||||||
Systemic | 1451 | 51.0 | 1342 | 51.4 | 2875 | 89.6 | 0.384 |
Radiotherapy | 560 | 19.7 | 504 | 19.3 | 1064 | 34.1 | |
Surgery | 820 | 28.8 | 746 | 28.6 | 1566 | 50.2 | |
Palliative care | 13 | 0.45 | 19 | 0.72 | 32 | 1.0 | |
Treatment side effects | |||||||
Yes | 1222 | 75.9 | 920 | 61.0 | 2142 | 68.7 | < 0.001 |
No | 388 | 24.1 | 587 | 39.0 | 975 | 31.3 | |